Using helper tools to mainain the Uploaders field

Le Sat, Aug 15, 2026 at 10:25:18AM +0200, Tobias Frost a écrit :
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>Coming back to where we started: keeping the Uploaders field reasonably
>up to date also means fewer "Remove from Uploaders" bugs from the MIA
>team. A little best-effort maintenance here may therefore save everyone
>some work later.

Hi all,

message to the developpers of tools like lintian-brush and debputy:

On my side I'd be happy to delegate this part of the management of the
Uploaders field to these or other tools, with whatever heuristic you
think is appropriate.

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/routine-update already adds the person
doing the upload to the Uploaders field if it is empty or missing, so
having helper tools removing names without caring if becomes empty would
be fine for me.  I expect I am not the only one, therefore posting this
on -devel.

Have a nice day,

Charles