On 21/08/25 10:59, Paul Gevers wrote:
Can we have an agreed content for the "debian team" in Maintainer/
Uploader? What I'm currently missing is the ability to say: this package
isn't QA maintained, but everybody is free to upload.
Maintainer: Debian <everyb...@debian.org>
Uploader: me and some others
Or ideally even without the Uploader field set, but currently that's a
policy violation.
Than this could become the opt-in way of saying this within the /debian
namespace.
+1. This way:
1 "collaboration" can be understood as simple coordination
2. all uploads can be framed as team-uploads
3. we don't have to care about NMUs and thresholds for this use-case
4. optionally, if there's consensus, anyone not interested in fully
collaborative maintenance can still keep their packages in the debian
namespace: imho personal namespaces as main Vcs are just ugly for
maintaining official Debian packages in (they're better left for
personal forks)
I'd approve a policy change that allows this.
Cheers!
