On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 at 17:49:50 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
Maybe update policy to say that if a package is MISSING a 'Maintainer:'
field, it is open for all DDs to do uploads? Instead of ADDING more
things, we could try to REMOVE things and attach semantics to that.
I didn't suggest this because my understanding is that a few parts of
our infrastructure (particularly dak/ftp team things, I think?) send
mail to the Maintainer specifically, and not to an address that gets
forwarded to tracker.debian.org subscribers; and this is why it's
considered to be an RC bug if mail to the Maintainer address bounces.
I can certainly see an argument that this would be a bug in those pieces
of infra, because anything that the Maintainer needs to be told about is
probably equally something that the package's distro-tracker subscribers
ought to be told about.
smcv
