On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 03:31:12PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 02:26:10PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 02:04:50PM +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: > > > Sections 5.11.3 and 5.11.4 describe how to orphan/adopt a normal > > > package[0], > > > but the procedure is different for a pseudo-package because there's no > > > actual > > > package to edit. Based on [1], I suggest adding a paragraph like this: > > This is just a terminology thing, but "adopting" somehow feels like strange > > language here, because pseudo-packages are really more like responsibilities > > that are assigned to teams for specialized situations. Perhaps "change the > > maintainer of" rather than "adopt"? > > yes > > > > To adopt a pseudo-package, e-mail `[email protected]` and > > > ask > > [email protected] instead, please. Otherwise this seems reasonable to > > me. > > yes > > seems reasonable to me too and thanks for your bug report with patch, Andrew. > An updated patch would be appreciated...
Here you go! https://salsa.debian.org/debian/developers-reference/-/merge_requests/86 I made the changes above and put it all at the bottom of the "adopting" section. I'm fine using the term "change the maintainer" in the text, but chose not to add a new "change the maintainer of a pseudo-package" section because it seemed too clunky for such a rare edge case.
