Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene

On 8/15/26 12:10 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 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.

The package is still team maintained, new upstream releases get packaged and bugs get triaged, but only the minimum amount of effort is put in those packages.

Orphaning the package will make it fall of radar and not even receive that little work.

I'd prefer for policy 5.6.3 to drop the "at least one human" requirement, to allow for team maintained packages no person takes responsibility for.

Kind Regards,

Bas