Le Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 09:10:31PM +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit : > > for some time I've been uploading packages with Maintainer set to a > mailing list and no Uploaders field. In cases where some package kind > of fit within a team, but noone cares specifically about that individual > package, I feel it's better than setting Maintainer to the Debian QA > Group, which policy currently says is required, since the team will get > bug mail, and any updates to the package will probably come from the > team anyway. So I'd like to see this requirement relaxed. >
Hello everybody, if I remember well, this policy was set because some developers were (rightfully in my opinion) annoyed when the Maintainer field is a moderated mailing list and there is no Uploader field. So to relax the current requirement, the best would be if somebody could propose a new wording that still takes this potential problem into account. Perhaps this could be done by saying that as an exception to the rule, orphaned packages can use a mailing list as Maintainer, and adding a footnote explaining that this mailing list does not need to be the QA team. Have a nice day, -- Charles
