Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance (was Re: Bits from the DPL)

From	Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.project
Subject	Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance (was Re: Bits from the DPL)
Date	2026-02-17 10:50 +0100
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Charles Plessy [16/Feb  7:19pm +09] wrote:
> Le Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 09:20:56AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
>>
>> The contact point problem remains, of course. Personally, I'd love for
>> packaging teams to publish a list of individual people who are points of
>> contact, but I realize that's just one more thing to keep up to date.
>
> I think that in the teams where I participate, it makes sense to have no
> Uploader field in packages where nobody wants to have them in their developers
> dasboard (as opposed to the teams dasboard).
>
> But if that is putting too much pressure on other teams, maybe I will
> propose to just add this to our routine update scripts:
>
>     grep -q '^Uploaders:' debian/control ||
>         cme modify dpkg-control "source Uploaders=\"$(dpkg-parsechangelog -S Maintainer)\""
>
> And leave it to the team members to remove themselves from the Uploader field
> in the VCS whenever they want.

IIUC you are copying a non-human name from Maintainers to Uploaders,
which would violate a Policy "must" and thus be an RC bug.  That's the
whole thing we're discussing here.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance (was Re: Bits from the DPL) "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> - 2026-02-05 14:20 +0100
  Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance (was Re: Bits from the DPL) Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2026-02-05 15:50 +0100
  Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance (was Re: Bits from the DPL) Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2026-02-05 16:20 +0100
    Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance (was Re: Bits from the DPL) Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> - 2026-02-05 16:50 +0100
      Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance (was Re: Bits from the DPL) Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2026-02-05 18:30 +0100
        Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance (was Re: Bits from the DPL) Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> - 2026-02-05 19:30 +0100
          Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance (was Re: Bits from the DPL) Fabian Grünbichler <debian@fabian.gruenbichler.email> - 2026-02-05 21:10 +0100
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              Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance (was Re: Bits from the DPL) Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> - 2026-02-06 03:50 +0100
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                Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance (was Re: Bits from the DPL) Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2026-02-07 19:00 +0100
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                Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance (was Re: Bits from the DPL) Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2026-02-17 12:50 +0100
                Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance (was Re: Bits from the DPL) Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2026-02-17 14:40 +0100
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                Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> - 2026-02-18 21:40 +0100
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                Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org> - 2026-02-19 08:50 +0100
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                Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> - 2026-02-20 01:10 +0100
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                Re: unmaintained packages hidden by team maintenance Dominik George <natureshadow@debian.org> - 2026-02-20 15:30 +0100
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