Everyone capable of answering (and more) will be behind deity@, while
uploaders is a rather limited set of people with the rights to upload
the package, which are not necessarily maintaining the package
(anymore). Just as a random data point: The guy (me) who implemented
the config option you mention later on is not an uploader …
Which perhaps it should be fixed.
And I do not mean removing the inactive uploaders/maintainers (although
I certainly all for keeping these things tidy), but by you becoming a
DM, if not a DD... :-)