On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 10:43:14AM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:
For everyone's context: this is about a recently orphaned package that moved to the python team. This is some discussion about if orphaned packages could be moved to maintainer teams namespace instead of `debian/` namespace and whether or not lintian should be adjusted here.I don't think that this should be allowed, except by a member of that team, doing the moral equivalent of adding themselves to Uploaders. By this I mean: committing to looking after it at least somewhat. My point is that even in the absence of a hard requirement to have a human name in Uploaders, we still shouldn't move packages under teams unless there is someone on that team who would be willing to add their name to Uploaders in the current world.
Yes, just like we don't want orphaned packages to be dropped into our teams for maintenance, we don't want orphaned packages' repos to be dropped into our team namespaces either.
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