Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance

On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 06:58:32PM +0100, Tobias Frost wrote:
>If explicit person -> package associations become optional, individual
>inactivity within teams would no longer be a project-level concern. MIA
>could then no longer operate under its current model, as one of the
>structured signals linking individuals to packages would not be
>consistently available.  While other heuristics may still exist, they
>are not equivalent to an explicit and declared association, and are
>operationally much more expensive.

I am in the Uploaders field of hundreds of packages.  I view this as
useless overhead.  If I were to disappear, how do you imagine my
name's presence or absence in debian/control would help anyone?