On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 05:18:39PM +0100, наб wrote: > 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: [..] > 3. Maintainer: salvage team > [..] > 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.
Why are what you call "dead-end packages" "salvaged" at all? I seem to recall that the salvaging process is for packages you actually want to maintain. If the packages are "dead", RM them. Not doing so is a big disservice to the project. Chris
