>>>>> On Sat, 03 Aug 2019, Michał Górny wrote:

>> Upstream developers can be listed already now in the <upstream>
>> description (per GLEP 68). Should they be listed twice now, only to
>> indicate that they are to be CCed on bugs?

> This is happening already.  I'm not saying it's perfect but I don't see
> anyone working on a better solution either.

> And yes, I'm talking about real life situation when the only
> <maintainer/> in the package left was this 'upstream watcher'.
> I suppose an alternative solution there would be to return to explicit
> logical marking as <maintainer-needed/>.

Many metadata files have that anyway as a comment, which is far from
perfect. So yes, I'd say that explicit <maintainer-needed/> is better
than <maintainer type="not-really-a-maintainer"/>.

Alternatively, how about calling that type "upstream" instead of
"watcher"?

Ulrich

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