Bug#1111645: Lintian's inconsistent-maintainer error for team-maintained packages

[Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@gmail.com>]

Le mercredi 20 août 2025 à 14:49 -0400, Louis-Philippe Véronneau a
écrit :
> On 2025-08-20 10 h 34 a.m., Julien Puydt wrote:
> > Package: lintian
> > Version: 2.122.0
> > Severity: minor
> > 
> > I just started to work on updating packages after the Trixie
> > release,
> > and I get errors looking like these:
> > 
> > E: package_srcname changes: inconsistent-maintainer Julien Puydt
> > <jpuydt@debian.org> (changes vs. source) Debian Foo Team
> > <debian-foo-team@lists.debian.org>
> > 
> > Indeed:
> > - the package is maintained by a team, so the Maintainer field is
> > set
> > to that ;
> > - $DEBEMAIL and $DEBFULLNAME hint to my identity, and I'm to be
> > found
> > in the Uploaders field (and I'm not sure it would be that
> > problematic
> > if I weren't...).
> > 
> > I looked around to see if someone complained about it and didn't
> > find
> > anything really useful... is it something I should update somewhere
> > in
> > my setup or an actual lintian issue?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > J.Puydt
> > 
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Your d/changelog entry should start by:
> 
> * Team upload.
> 
> Does this fix your issue?

It doesn't fix the error, but now I also get a warning saying that line
is useless since I'm listed as an uploader (unnecessary-team-upload)! I
think the "Team upload" trick is when you're part of a team and
contribute to a team-maintained package but don't appear in the
uploaders - which is something people do when they do one-off piece of
work on a package.

J.Puydt