It is sometimes claimed that the strong ownership of packages by their maintainers is detrimental to Debian's progress in cases when a maintainer can't, for whatever reason, fix a problem speedily. The NMU procedure takes a long time, at least about two weeks, depending on the value of "some".

The maintainers and maintainer groups listed below declare that their packages (all, or the ones listed specifically below) may be fixed and uploaded without delay, at any time, as long as the NMU procedure in the Debian Developer's Reference is otherwise followed. You don't need to contact the maintainers beforehand, and you don't need to use a delayed upload queue. If the package maintainer or maintainer group is active, it is polite to let them have a stab at fixing the problem first.

Every change should be to fix a reported bug. Changes should not be frivolous. For example, don't change from debhelper to cdbs just because you prefer it that way; if you really want to make such big changes to the package, talk with the maintainer or maintainer group first, and maybe offer to adopt the package.

This list is utterly and totally opt-in. The above relaxation of time limits does not apply to anyone else's packages.

The majority of records in this page is written in a (pseudo) machine-friendly markup, following this rule:

An «except» field means that <package> is excluded from this lowthreshold list because of <motivations>.

A «check» field means that before NMUing <package> you should get in touch and check with original maintainer because special <motivations> apply.

A «comment» field contains general information regarding all the packages of that DD.

N.B. Sometimes groups of packages were specified in a more complex human-like form. I've marked them with a prepended "ie." label, as I haven't yet found a proper solution. A common example is: "except: ie. comaintained [by the FOO team]".

Groups

  1. Debian BOINC Maintainers - (all packages)

  2. Debian Perl Group - (all packages) - please use the SVN repository (docs)

  3. CipUX Team - (all packages)

  4. Debian GSS Team - (all packages)

  5. Debian Shishi Team - (all packages)

  6. Debian Common Lisp Team - (all packages)

Individual Maintainers

Please keep the alphabetical according to first and last name.

The PTS fetches all email adresses in links to http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=, and displays a link to this page next to the Maintainer name. Please add such a link to your entry.

  1. Aaron M. Ucko - (all packages)

  2. ?Adam Borowski - (all packages)

  3. ?Alexander Reichle-Schmehl - (all packages)

  4. ?Adrian Bridgett - (all packages)

  5. Alexandre Fayolle - (all packages)

  6. Amaya Rodrigo Sastre - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome

  7. Andreas Barth - (all packages) - except: libapache-mod-dav - check: mgetty please ask first - check: netpbm-free please make sure you don't do copyright violations as upstream is a bit lazy - check: dpkg-sig that's HE's domain - Comaintainers welcome

  8. Andreas Fester - (all packages)

  9. Andreas Tille - (all packages)

  10. ?Andres Mejia - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  11. Andrew Pollock - (all packages) Comment: please don't NMU out of the blue, I hate surprises

  12. Anibal Monsalve Salazar - (all packages)

  13. ?Angus Lees - (all packages)

  14. Anthony Fok - (all packages)

  15. Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho - (all packages)

  16. Ari Pollak - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  17. Arjan Oosting - (all packages)

  18. Arnaud Cornet - (all packages)

  19. Asheesh Laroia - (all packages)

  20. Axel Beckert - (all packages) - except: slash (package needs a big revamp anyway) - except: ie. Co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome

  21. ?Barak Pearlmutter - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  22. Baruch Even - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  23. Bayle Florent - (all packages)

  24. Ben Armstrong - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  25. Benjamin Mako Hill - (all packages)

  26. Ben Hutchings - (all packages) - except ie. Co-maintained - comment: see here and here

  27. Ben Pfaff - (all packages) - except: autoconf - except: autoconf2.13

  28. Bernd Zeimetz - (all packages, all packages) - except: Co-maintained packages

  29. Brice Goglin - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained packages

  30. Carsten Hey - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained packages - check: deborphan

  31. Changwoo Ryu - (all packages)

  32. Chris Butler - (all packages)

  33. Christian Aichinger - (all packages)

  34. Christian Perrier - all packages - except: Co-maintained

  35. Christoph Berg - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  36. Christopher Cramer - (all packages)

  37. ?Christine Spang - (all packages) - except: Team-maintained

  38. Clément Stenac - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  39. Colin Watson - (all packages) - except: base-passwd - Comaintainers welcome - check: base-passwd comaintainers are welcome

  40. CristianGreco - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained packages

  41. Cyril Brulebois - (all packages)

  42. Daniel Burrows - (all packages)

  43. Daniel Kahn Gillmor - (all packages)

  44. Daniel Leidert - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained by debichem team - comment: read my blog

  45. Daniel Ruoso - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  46. David Moreno Garza - (all packages)

  47. David Nusinow - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained by the XStrikeForce - except: ie. comaintained by libruby-extras team

  48. David Paleino - (all packages) - except: bash-completion - except: ie. co-maintained

  49. David Weinehall - (all packages)

  50. ?Decklin Foster - (all packages)

  51. Denis Barbier - (all packages) - comment: check packages where I am listed as Maintainer - Comaintainers welcome

  52. Didier 'OdyX' Raboud - (all packages) - except: i.e. Team-maintained packages - comment: Please commit the fixes to the package VCS - Comaintainers welcome

  53. Don Armstrong - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  54. EddyPetrisor - aspell-ro and any package without co-maintainers - even new upstream versions are ok (contact me before such an upload), Co-maintainers welcome

  55. Eduard Bloch - (all packages) - except: ie. on strategic upstream issues where I am (defacto) upstream of a package - Comantainers welcome

  56. Emanuele Rocca - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained by the Debian Xfce Group

  57. ?Emilio Pozuelo Monfort - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained.

  58. Enrico Tassi - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  59. Enrico Zini - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  60. Erich Schubert - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  61. Erinn Clark - (all packages)

  62. ?Fabio Tranchitella - (all packages) - comment: check with comaintainers where appropriate - Comaintainers welcome

  63. Faidon Liambotis - (all packages)

  64. Falk Hueffner - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  65. Filippo Giunchedi - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  66. Florian Ernst - (all packages) - comment: check packages where I am listed as Maintainer - Comaintainers welcome

  67. Francesco Namuri - (all packages)

  68. Frank S. Thomas - (all packages)

  69. Franz Pletz - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  70. Frederic Peters - (all packages)

  71. ?Ganesan Rajagopal - (all packages)

  72. Gaudenz Steinlin - (all packages - comment: advance notices for me to comment welcome - Comaintainers welcome

  73. Geert Stappers - (all packages)

  74. George Danchev - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  75. ?Gonéri Le Bouder - (all packages)

  76. Gregor Herrmann - (all packages - comment: Please give me 24 hours and check with co-maintainers.

  77. Goedson Paixão - (all packages)

  78. Guido Guenther - (all packages - comment: advance notices for me to comment welcome - Comaintainers welcome

  79. Guilherme de S. Pastore - (all packages)

  80. Gunnar Wolf - (all packages)

  81. Gustavo Franco - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  82. Gustavo Noronha Silva - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  83. Gürkan Sengün - (all packages)

  84. ?Christian Hammers - (all packages) - except: mysql - except: quagga - Comaintainers welcome for all

  85. Helge Kreutzmann - (all packages)

  86. Holger Levsen - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  87. Ian Wienand - (all packages)

  88. ?Ivan Kohler - (all packages - comment: check packages where I am listed as Maintainer - Comaintainers welcome

  89. Jaldhar H. Vyas - (all packages) - except: dovecot

  90. James Westby - (all packages - except: co-maintained - Co-maintainers welcome

  91. Jamin W. Collins - (all packages) - Co-maintainers welcome

  92. ?Jan Lübbe - (all packages) - except: bitbake

  93. Jan Nordholz - (all packages) - except: ebtables already co-maintained

  94. Jari Aalto - (all packages) - except: co-maintained - Co-maintainers welcome - comment: please prefer working through the collab-maint Git repositories where you can find the packages

  95. Jeff Bailey - (all packages, all packages, all packages) - except: glibc - Comaintainers welcome

  96. Jelmer Vernooij - (all packages)

  97. ?Jeremie Corbier - (all packages)

  98. ?Jérémy Bobbio - (all packages) - comment: please note that most of them are already team maintained

  99. Jeroen van Wolffelaar - (all packages)

  100. Joachim Breitner - (all packages)

  101. Joachim Reichel - (all packages)

  102. ?Jochen Friedrich - (all packages) - except: net-snmp already team maintained. Comaintainers welcome.

  103. Joe Wreschnig - (all packages)

  104. Joey Hess - (all packages)

  105. Jonas Smedegaard - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome - comment: please change from anything to cdbs!

  106. Jon Dowland/jmtd - (all packages)

  107. Joost Yervante Damad - (all packages)

  108. Joost van Baal - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  109. Jordi Mallach - (all packages) - comment: Co-maintained for GNOME ask on #gnome-debian@?GimpNet or debian-gtk-gnome@lists.d.o first.

  110. Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo - (all packages) - comment: check with different teams before uploading a NMU of those packages hold by a team.

  111. Joshua Kwan - (all packages) - comment: I'm super busy with school so NMU away. I'll pick up the pieces in the summer.

  112. Josselin Mouette - (all packages) - except: python-support - comment: Co-maintained for GNOME ask on #gnome-debian@?GimpNet or debian-gtk-gnome@lists.d.o first

  113. ?Juan A. Diaz - (all packages)

  114. Julien Danjou - (all packages)

  115. ?Kalle Kivimaa - (all packages)

  116. Kapil Hari Paranjape - (all packages, all packages)

  117. ?Karl Bartel - (all packages)

  118. Kartik Mistry - (all packages, all packages) - ask for: Co-maintained packages

  119. Kevin B. McCarty - (all packages) - check: cernlib - check: paw - check: geant321 - check: mclibs - check: mn-fit - comment: Cernlib-related please try to contact me first.

  120. Kumar Appaiah - (all packages)

  121. ?Kyle McMartin - (all packages)

  122. Lars Wirzenius - (all packages)

  123. Lionel Elie Mamane - (all packages) - except: ie. Comaintained (consult with comaintainers first) - except: ie. exception to the exception: scsh* seem like they are co-maintained, but they are not, so they *DO* fall under LowThresholdNMU.

  124. Loic Minier - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained

  125. Luca Capello - (all packages) - comment: if possible please send darcs patches

  126. Lucas Nussbaum - (all packages)

  127. Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt - (all packages)

  128. Marcus Better - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  129. Marco Presi (Zufus) - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome - check: python-scipy *please* watch out the (svn repository) - check: python-numpy *please* watch out the (svn repository)

  130. Marco Rodrigues - (all packages)

  131. Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva - (all packages)

  132. Margarita Manterola - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  133. Mario Iseli - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  134. Martin F. Krafft - (all packages) - comment: check with comaintainers where approriate - Comaintainers welcome.

  135. Mark Howard - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  136. Martin Meredith - (all packages)

  137. Martin Pitt - (all packages - check: postgresql* please be extra conservative about them

  138. Martin Wuertele - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  139. Martin Zobel-Helas - (all packages) - except: ed

  140. Masayuki Hatta - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  141. Matej Vela - (all packages)

  142. Matt Brubeck - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  143. Matt Kraai - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  144. Matthew Garrett - (all packages)

  145. Matthew Johnson - (all packages)

  146. Micah Anderson - (all packages)

  147. Michael Banck - (all packages)

  148. Michael Casadevall - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained packages comment: Comaintainers welcomes. Also see [here|http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=sonicmctails@gmail.com] for packages under my old email address. Please ping on IRC or send email beforehand.

  149. Michael Hanke - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  150. ?Michael Janssen - (all packages)

  151. Michael Mende - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  152. Michael Tautschnig - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  153. Michal Čihař - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  154. Miguel Gea Milvaques - (all packages)

  155. Mohammed Adnène Trojette - (all packages)

  156. Moray Allan - (all packages)

  157. Morten Hustveit - (all packages)

  158. Moritz Muehlenhoff - (all packages)

  159. Morten Werner Forsbring - (all packages)

  160. Nathanael Nerode - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  161. Neil McGovern - (all packages)

  162. Nelson A. de Oliveira - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  163. Nicolas Duboc - (all packages)

  164. Nico Golde - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  165. Niels Thykier - (all packages) - comment: Co-maintainers are welcome. - except: Team-/Co-maintained packages.

  166. ?Niv Sardi - (all packages)

  167. ?Oleksandr Moskalenko - (all packages) - comment: Do try to contact me via IRC or email before uploading. - Comaintainers welcome

  168. Ondřej Čertík - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  169. ?Ondřej Surý - (all packages)

  170. Osamu Aoki - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  171. Otavio Salvador - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  172. Patrick Schoenfeld - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained

  173. Paul Wise - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  174. Per Olofsson - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  175. Peter Makholm - (all packages) - except debnest

  176. ?Petter Reinholdtsen - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome

  177. Pierre Habouzit - (all packages) - except: ie. KDE packages - comment: for KDE ones, ask debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org - Comaintainers welcome

  178. Pierre Machard - (all packages)

  179. Peter Van Eynde - (all packages) - comment: if possible please send darcs patches

  180. ?Philipp Hug - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  181. ?Qingning Huo - (all packages)

  182. Rafael Laboissiere - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained packages - Comaintainers welcome

  183. Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  184. Raphael Geissert - (all packages)

  185. Raphael Hertzog - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  186. ?Recai Oktaş - (all packages)

  187. ?Reinhard Tartler - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  188. ReneMayorga - (all packages)

  189. Ricardo Mones - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome

  190. ?Richard Nelson - (all packages) -

  191. Riku Voipio - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained

  192. Robert Jordens - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  193. Robert Lemmen - (all packages)

  194. ?Robert McQueen - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  195. Roberto C. Sanchez - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained - comment: please file a bug including a diff with the source changes

  196. Rodrigo Gallardo - (all packages)

  197. Roger Leigh - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  198. Roger So - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  199. Roland Mas - (all packages) - comment: Please try to ping me on IRC or email beforehand - comaintainers welcome - check: gforge please refrain from touching the database maintenance code in gforge as it's somewhat fragile

  200. Ross Burton - (all packages)

  201. Ruben Molina - (all packages)

  202. Rudy Godoy - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome.

  203. Russ Allbery - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained - check: heads-up welcome so that I can comment

  204. Ryan Niebur - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome - comment: before NMUing please send me a direct email and wait 24 hours for a reply

  205. Ryszard Aach - (all packages)

  206. Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained - check: vlc - check: ffmpeg - check: yasm - comment: be careful with things that will cause utter retaliation if you break them more than needed

  207. Sam Morris - (all packages)

  208. Santiago Ruano Rincón - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained

  209. Sebastian Dröge - (all packages) - except: Co-maintained

  210. Sergio Talens-Oliag - (all packages)

  211. Siegfried-A. Gevatter - (all packages)

  212. ?Simon Josefsson - (all packages)

  213. Simon McVittie - (all packages) - except: ie. co-maintained - co-maintainers welcome

  214. Søren Boll Overgaard - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  215. Stefan Fritsch - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained

  216. Stefan Potyra - (all packages)

  217. Stefano Zacchiroli - (all packages - except: ie. Co-maintained

  218. Steffen Joeris - (all packages) - except: debian-edu*

  219. ?Steinar H. Gunderson - (all packages) - except: pkgsync - except: amoeba - except: ie. the ones I'm also upstream for

  220. Steve McIntyre - all packages - except: cvs - except: cdrtools - except: debian-cd - except: ie. Co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome

  221. Steve M. Robbins - (all packages) - except: ie. Co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome

  222. Sven Mueller - all packages - except co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome

  223. Sylvain Le Gall - all packages - except: Co-maintained

  224. ?Sylvain Thénault - all packages

  225. Ted Percival - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  226. T:hadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo - all packages

  227. Thijs Kinkhorst - (all packages)

  228. Thom May - all packages - except: ie. Co-maintained

  229. Thomas Girard - all packages - except: co-maintained - Co-maintainers welcome

  230. Tobias Toedter - (all packages) - except: iso-codes - Comaintainers welcome

  231. Todd Troxell - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  232. Tony Mancill - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome.

  233. Torsten Werner - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  234. ?Trent W. Buck - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  235. Victor Seva - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  236. ?Vince Mulhollon - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome - check: simh be careful to remove copyright violations from the upstream

  237. Vincent Danjean - (all packages)

  238. W. Borgert - (all packages) - co-maintainers welcome

  239. William Pitcock - (all packages) - except: co-maintained - Comaintainers welcome

  240. Wookey - (all packages) - comment: Yes, please fix my packages :)

  241. ?Xiyue Deng - (all packages) - comment: Co-maintained for GNOME ask on #gnome-debian@?GimpNet or debian-gtk-gnome@lists.d.o first - Co-maintainers welcome

  242. Y Giridhar Appaji Nag - (all packages) - comment: As applicable, check with co-maintainers and commit the fixes to the package VCS - Co-maintainers are welcome.

  243. Y Giridhar Appaji Nag - (all packages) - comment: As applicable, check with co-maintainers and commit the fixes to the package VCS - Co-maintainers are welcome.

  244. Zak B. Elep - (all packages)

(Reminder: Please keep the alphabetical according to first and last name.)


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