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 <everybody@debian.org> Uploader: me and some othersOr 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-case4. 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!