On 2024-12-23 Gioele Barabucci <gio...@svario.it> wrote: > On 22/12/24 06:56, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> On 2024-12-22 Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote: >>> On Sat 21 Dec 2024 at 10:23pm +01, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
>>>> We have a mechanism for when you feel responsible: "Maintainer: $me". >>>> What is being discussed here is a mechanism for shared, collective, >>>> diffused responsibility: "If this package is in bad shape, the whole >>>> Debian project should be held responsible. Either it gets fixed by >>>> someone or it gets RM'd by someone." >>> Hmm, what you describe seems more like an orphaned package. >> +1 on that. The proposed scheme is exactly how "Maintainer: Debian QA >> Group" works. > Not exactly. > https://lintian.debian.org/tags/uploaders-in-orphan.html >> uploaders-in-orphan >> Packages with their maintainer set to packa...@qa.debian.org, >> i.e. orphaned packages, should not have uploaders. >> Adopt the package properly if you want to resume its maintenance. [...] "The proposed scheme" was supposed to be refering to the grander idea of having a package with nobody being responsible but with "Debian" taking care. That is exactly how qa maintained packages work. Imho the main problem we have there is not that they are maintained badly, the relevant packages often have high quality packaging, however there is loads and loads of cruft that really should be removed but is not because nobody is responsible. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
