Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance

gregor herrmann <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:27:44 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.project
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:19:37 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:

>Am Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 11:06:09PM +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy:
>> 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.
>As a team member of this team I support this *conditional* setting
>(= *if* Uploaders is empty *then* set it to the current Uploader).
>Perhaps this automatism should be avoided if the Upload is explicitly
>marked as NMU.

Or as a "Team upload"?


Cheers,
gregor

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