> > 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. > What are the advantages of the Uploaders field over debian/changelog? I can see some tooling issues, but nothing insurmountable (see e.g. who-uploads from devscripts). There are also some advantages for relying on changelog: e.g. it reveals packages only uploaded via NMUs with the last X months/years, and of course the changelog is typically even more up to date than the Uploaders field.
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