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



* Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org> [160715 21:03]:
> > These packages are clearly not not-maintained (teams care about
> > them), so orphaning or assinging to Debian QA Group would make no
> > sense whatsoever.
[..]

> From my short time as MIA member I can tell it is already hard enough
> to find persons being MIA; to track complete teams will be lot harder.
> (e.g the question who is actually a team member is sometimes hard to
> answer from outside)

I can't disagree; however as said before, the info in Uploaders: is
- for the larger teams - meaningless.

> IMHO if the team commits to maintain that package it shouldn't be too much strain to add an explict carer too, is it? 

But who would that be?

> For that people need to know that that particular package is up for
> adoption. That information would be harder to retrieve.

I do not think "adoption" is the right word here; in Debian context
it somehow implies that the package is orphaned and sees no
maintenance.

> However wnpp could be used as a tool here: Why not advertise 
> using a RFA and telling there that the team has open positions?

*shrug*. In pkg-ruby-extras, that wnpp bug would be very generic:
"please join and work on all packages that you can find" ...

Best,
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