On Thu Aug 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM CEST, Simon McVittie wrote:
Wouldn't emails to packagen...@packages.debian.org still go to devel?I don't think Uploaders automatically get these emails just by being Uploaders, only if they explicitly subscribe? (But I could be wrong!)
I know you can subscribe to @tracker.d.o emails, but I don't know if (or how) you can subscribe to @packages.d.o ones. If no explicit subscribing mechanism exists, I'd expect emails to reach uploaders as well. But I may be wrong :)
So that would look like this? Package: example Maintainer: Example maintainers <exam...@packages.debian.org> Uploaders: Minnie Mouse <...>, Donald Duck <...>It isn't obvious (to me at least) that Minnie and Donald intended this to mean "no strong ownership"; they might equally have meant "we're using exam...@packages.debian.org as a convenient contact address that goes to both of us, but we have very specific expectations for this package and do not want changes that we didn't approve".
Yes, this is what I have in mind. I agree that it's not obvious.
But if we see Package: example Maintainer: Example maintainers <exam...@packages.debian.org> Uploaders: Minnie Mouse <...>, Donald Duck <...>, Debian <debian-devel@...>then I think that makes it a lot more obvious that the two maintainers are saying, at least, "any Debian developer is welcome to join our team" (and perhaps also welcoming 0-day uploads from anyone).
Yes, this is clearer. But also, what's the point of having the Maintainer field then? Of course the "example" package is maintained by the "Example maintainers". At that point, you might as well remove it (as suggested by the other Simon in <https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/87jz2wk735....@josefsson.org>), but it feels wrong to me for some reason.
adduser, isc-dhcp and some older versions of util-linux are using their packages.debian.org addresses as a contact point. It isn't obvious to me whether their maintainers intended these packages to be collectively maintained by everyone.
If you're reading: I'd like to hear what you meant! Bye.
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