Re: debian group on salsa allowing any DD to upload packages hosted there
On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:06:02 +0200, Carsten Leonhardt <leo@debian.org>
wrote:
>Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Maybe, instead than retrofitting a policy on the debian salsa group, a
>> good way to both clarify the situation and allow an opt-in mechanism
>> would be to create another group on salsa, with rules clearly defined
>> from the start, and let maintainers decide of the maintenance model they
>> want for the package they currently maintain. After all it's very simple
>> to move projects between groups in salsa, and just requires an upload to
>> update the VCS fields.
>
>This would have my vote. I moved my packages to the debian namespace to
>ease git access for others, also for the case that a package might have
>to be passed to another maintainer. At the time the debian namespace was
>introduced, I've read nothing about implied upload rights. If I had, I
>wouldn't have put my packages there. It was only later that some people
>wrote about supposed upload rights, but I never saw a source cited for
>the claim.
I feel the same.
Greetings
Marc
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