Re: Bug#798476: debian-policy: don't require Uploaders

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

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