Re: Formal declaration of weak package ownership in source packages (was: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers)

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Lars Wirzenius writes ("Re: Formal declaration of weak package ownership in source packages (was: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers)"):
> For example, there's corner cases that get tricky. A package might
> only be in stable, but the maintainer wants to declare it as
> LowThresholdAdoptable. That would require an upload to unstable only
> to change that bit of metadata. Or Debian might be in a freeze, and
> uploading a new package version would be frowned upon.
> 
> It's a lot simpler to keep this metadata outside source package.

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