Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene

Quoting Sebastiaan Couwenberg (2026-08-15 11:07:03)
> On 8/15/26 10:25 AM, Tobias Frost wrote:
> > But this is not just an MIA team task. The Uploaders field is part of
> > the package's maintenance metadata, and keeping it reasonably accurate
> > should be part of maintaining the package. If you notice that someone
> > listed there no longer appears to be actively maintaining the package,
> > please consider cleaning it up.
> 
> This will result in no-human-maintainers lintian issues, because many packages are on life support with team uploads where no person wants to commit to the package by adding themselves to Uploaders.
> 
> I guess we should just acknowledge that fact in the override comment.

If noone in a team wants to commit to a package by adding themselves as
in the Uploaders field, it seems that package is team-*un*maintained
and that fact should be acknowledged by moving the package to QA team.

Like Tobias, I am *not* proposing anything new here, I am reflecting on
our current rules for package maintenance in Debian.

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