[DRE-maint] Bug#1113791: anything forbidding adopting the patch and resolving this

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Mon Sep 28 16:11:15 BST 2026


The patch looks reasonable to me.  How about doing an NMU?

Yaroslav Halchenko:
> THANK YOU for digging this one up.  So, it is "just" a
> time/technical issue if I got it right.  So, the situation will remain
> "as is" for foreseable future I guess.
> 
> On Thu, 23 Jul 2026, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> 
>> * Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh at debian.org> [260723 18:30]:
> 
>>> On Thu, 23 Jul 2026, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
>>>>>     mailto:1113791 at bugs.debian.org
> 
>>>>> and not a list of addresses.  Am I missing smth?
> 
>>>> That's all nice, but the page says "to the package maintainer". In this
>>>> case, the "package maintainer" is the email address of a team maintaining a
>>>> very big number of packages. Very often Uploaders maintaining only a single
>>>> package in such a team are not subscriber to the team mailing list, to avoid
>>>> drowning in other noise.
> 
>>> I see, thanks for the explanation. Still, I wonder now if we
>>> should seek/consider adding Uploaders to the "maintainers" here, since a
>>> typical "user" of current setup would still be hitting "Reply" on the
>>> BTS website, and it would be counter productive to request everyone to
>>> familiarize with each  package current maintenance/uploading
>>> "structure".
> 
>> See bug 397761.
> 
>> Best,
>> Chris
> 
> 
> 



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