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

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 04:33:49PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>     ... if the Maintainer control field names a group of people and a
>     shared email address, the Uploaders field must be present and must
>     contain at least one human with their personal email address.  An
>     exception is made for packaging teams which state clearly on their
>     homepage, documentation or team policy that all packages are taken
>     care of by every team member collectively.
> 
> Possibly too bureaucratic, but might allay some of the concerns that
> Tobi raised: barely-established teams aren't likely to have a team
> homepage/documentation/policy document.

The problem is that the majority of such documentation is outdated and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.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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