Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance

gregor herrmann <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:17:43 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.project
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:06:09 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:

>If packages without Uploaders turn out to be problematic, we could adopt
>a simple r-pkg-team rule: the next person who uploads Uploaderless
>packages becomes the Uploader by default, using something like the
>one‑liner above.

That's what's happening in the Debian Perl Group (in practice, I 
don't think it's written down somewhere and I guess people do it 
manually).

>Still, I think making the Uploader field optional is the cleaner
>long‑term solution, especially since this kind of metadata can be
>maintained outside the archive.

Ack.


Cheers,
gregor

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