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Re: Heads-up: new lintian error: no-human-maintainers



Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
> On Mon 22 Apr 2019 at 11:03AM -07, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> This was a request from ftpmaster so that they had a contact point for
>> each package in the case of any problems.  If they're happy for this
>> requirement to be removed for d-i packages, we're happy to update
>> Policy accordingly.  Presumably the d-i team is the contact for
>> anything related to udebs, so that may fulfill their requirement.  (If
>> they're unhappy, we should talk more about it.)

> Hmm, I think you might be forgetting a bit of context -- unless I'm
> forgetting something, the main opposition to the 2017 attempt to kill
> the human uploaders requirement was that it would make the MIA process
> more difficult for the MIA team to carry out.

> Both members and non-members of the MIA team were arguing that.  I do
> not believe the ftpmasters were involved in that discussion at all.

Oh, I'm sorry, you're quite right.  I completely forgot about that.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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