Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance

gregor herrmann <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:59:19 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.project
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On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:07:38 +0100, Dominik George wrote:

>>Huh?  What's the point of having team-maintained packages at all with
>>that perspective?  Maybe it helps to think about this differently, and
>>consider that it is possible to not have a single-maintainer strong
>>ownership model of package maintainance.
>I think you are confusing ownership with responsibility. "Ownership" 
>would mean that I don't want others to touch my package. That does, 
>as you said, not make sense in team maintenance.
>"Responsibility", or "being in charge", means that someone pledged 
>to take on maintainer responsibilities, like keeping the package 
>updated regularly, ensuring it transitions to testing, etc. – i.e., 
>regular tasks that do not arise from external communication.

Simon and you are describing the two different models of "team 
maintenance" in Debian. That's what we have, and none of them are 
right/wrong, and there's IMO no use in arguing "teams means foo" or 
"teams mean bar".

Maybe it's a bit unfortunate that we use the same term for different 
concepts, but yeah, that's what it is :)


Cheers,
gregor

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