Re: becoming a debian member under a not-real name [now on debian-devel]

[Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>]

Am 05.04.24 um 12:31 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, 2024-04-02 at 12:40 +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
> > If at all, this whole situation is a plea to finally end single-person
> > maintainership of packages.
> >
> > It is my opinion that all packages should be either in collab maint or
> > in teams, and that any team member should feel free to have oversight
> > and make uploads on their own.
>
> Before that can happen, we would have to ensure that all package sources
> are moved to Salsa otherwise it would be difficult for other DDs to make
> changes to the source.

It is not actually needed. What I see as a blocker is having automatic
source scan/import (and repack) rules for every package to ensure that
importing a new upstream version is done in the expected way. Many packages
do not have a d/watch file at all or manually repack files.