On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 08:56:22AM +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > When dealing with #1093192 "ITS: vtgrab", you've set > "Maintainer: Package Salvaging Team <team+salv...@tracker.debian.org>" > in https://salsa.debian.org/salvage-team/vtgrab/-/blob/debian/debian/control . > However, you forgot to set the "Uploaders: "-field: no specific individuals > recorded as maintaining this package. I believe this field is supposed to be > set, as documented at > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging > , right?
Quoting the relevant: > It is recommended to choose between one of the two following schemes: > 2. Put the mailing list address in the Maintainer field. > In the Uploaders field, put the team members who care for the package. In the packages salvaged into the salvage team we have a choice between: 1. Maintainer: salvage team/Uploader: old maintainer 2. Maintainer: salvage team/Uploader: someone in the salvage team 3. Maintainer: salvage team 1 is obviously incorrect, otherwise we wouldn't be salvaging (reanalysing this, I see that the old maintainer's last upload was in 2018, so actively listing an MIA maintainer here would be Not Good anyway). 3 is a better fit for what I term dead-end packages (ones that truly no-one cares about, with no upstream, or no maintainer, or no utility, or otherwise 0 forward motion; and with little potential to generate bugs except 1 FTBFS/decade). This is most of the salvage team packages. 2 happens sometimes if someone actually cares about the package (most likely for contradiction of any of the above reasons). I believe that picking 2 for vtgrab would be a misrepresentation. Anyone that gets the the salvage team mail for a Breaking vtgrab Bug(?) can fix it just as well, with no preferential sludge recipients.
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