Bug#798476: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance

On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 08:50:55AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 07:31:44AM +0100, Tobias Frost a écrit :
> > 
> > the information in the Uploaders field is less about determining activity and
> > more about enabling action once inactivity has been established.
> > 
> > If team membership is not clearly documented, we cannot easily determine
> > which team should be contacted when someone goes missing.
> 
> Le Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 10:41:51PM +0100, Tobias Frost a écrit :
> > 
> > Do you have some concrete query in mind that you could share with me, which
> > would tell (quickly and with accuracy) that someone stopped working on a
> > package and we need to tell someone, e.g a team?
> 
> Hi Tobias,
> 
> this is the whole point of making the Uploader field optional.  When absent, it
> means that every team member is equally in chage for the package, and that when
> one member of the team leaves or becomes inactive, nobody changes for that
> package.

So if a team-maintained package without an Uploader field is not effectively
maintained, it can be salvaged/orphaned/hijacked by any DD exactly as if it was
not team-maintained ?

Cheers,