Hello Bill, On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 02:48:36PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > The problem is that the majority of such documentation is outdated and > obsolete to the point of being useless. > Most team start big and then slowly falter until they are reduced to > a single member (because it is easy to distribute work but hard to > distribute responsibility). > > So yes at any time they are a number of active, hard-working team, but there > also a larger number of phantom team that used to be active, but whose > packages are still maintained in Debian. It is important they carry some > valid information about the effective maintainers. The problem is that the information in Uploaders is no more likely to be up-to-date than the team homepage/policy/docs. And it's positively misleading to have some names in Uploaders who haven't worked on the package in ages. So I don't see how my proposal introduces any new problems; it's an improvement because it removes a source of confusion. -- Sean Whitton
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