Bug#798476: debian-policy: don't require Uploaders
On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 07:18:41AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> 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 The problem is that the majority of such documentation is outdated and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.
Information in the control files can be fixed by any uploaders/NMUers much
more easily than information on a website, so control file tend to be
more current. Also they cannot go off-line while unattended websites do
sometimes.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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