Bug#1041464: debian-policy: make Uploaders field optional for team-maintained packages

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

control: forcemerge 798476 1041464

Hello,

On Wed 19 Jul 2023 at 10:18am +01, Luca Boccassi wrote:

> Assigning ownership to individuals deters group and team maintenance,
> as other team members will feel like they are overstepping when working
> on a package for which other people are marked as Uploaders.
>
> In order to remove all barriers to team contributions and maintenance,
> make the 'Uploaders' field optional instead of mandatory when the
> 'Maintainer' is a team alias. This allows packages where we do not want
> to assign ownership to any individual, but leave them be purely team
> maintained, to do so.

I wanted to do this some years ago, but the MIA team objected.  So you'd
need to speak to them first.

-- 
Sean Whitton