Re: Beyond QA: Uploaders field hygiene

Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.project
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]> [260815 11:51]:
>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.

Or you can just leave it as it is? The next uploader who cares 
enough about the package can add themselves. In the meantime it 
serves as reminder that there is, in fact, no human uploader.

Best,
Chris
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