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. ?Adrian Bridgett - (all packages)

  4. ?Adrian von Bidder - (all packages)

  5. Aigars Mahinovs - (all packages)

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

  7. Alexandre Fayolle - (all packages)

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

  9. 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

  10. Andreas Fester - (all packages)

  11. Andreas Tille - (all packages)

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

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

  14. ?Angus Lees - (all packages)

  15. Anibal Monsalve Salazar - (all packages)

  16. Ansgar Burchardt - (all packages)

  17. Anthony Fok - (all packages)

  18. Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho - (all packages)

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

  20. Arjan Oosting - (all packages)

  21. Arnaud Cornet - (all packages)

  22. Asheesh Laroia - (all packages)

  23. Axel Beckert - (all packages, all packages) - except: slash (package needs a big revamp anyway) - except: Co-maintained packages - check: dphys-config - Comaintainers welcome

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

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

  26. Bayle Florent - (all packages)

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

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

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

  30. Benjamin Mako Hill - (all packages)

  31. Bernd Zeimetz - (all packages, all packages) - except: Co-maintained packages Comment: Only fix RC bugs. For everything else - talk with me. Neither upload new upstream versions nor make any other kind of mess.

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

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

  34. Changwoo Ryu - (all packages)

  35. Chris Boyle - (all packages)

  36. Chris Butler - (all packages)

  37. Christian Aichinger - (all packages)

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

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

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

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

  42. Christoph Egger - (all packages) - except: Team-maintained - Comaintainers welcome

  43. Christopher Cramer - (all packages)

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

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

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

  47. Cyril Brulebois - (all packages)

  48. Daniel Burrows - (all packages)

  49. Daniel Kahn Gillmor - (all packages)

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

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

  52. David Moreno Garza - (all packages)

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

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

  55. David Weinehall - (all packages)

  56. ?Decklin Foster - (all packages)

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

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

  59. Dmitry E. Oboukhov - (all packages) - all patches must be commited into git-repo (git.debian.org)

  60. Dominique Dumont - (all packages) - comment: Please check with co-maintainers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  69. Erinn Clark - (all packages)

  70. ?Evan Broder - (all packages)

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

  72. Faidon Liambotis - (all packages)

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

  74. Federico Gimenez Nieto - (all packages)

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

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

  77. Francesco Namuri - (all packages)

  78. Frank S. Thomas - (all packages)

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

  80. Frederic Peters - (all packages)

  81. ?Ganesan Rajagopal - (all packages)

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

  83. Geert Stappers - (all packages)

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

  85. Giovanni Mascellani - (all packages) - comment: Please check with comaintainers

  86. Goedson Paixão - (all packages)

  87. ?Gonéri Le Bouder - (all packages)

  88. Gregor Herrmann - (all packages) - comment: Please check with co-maintainers.

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

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

  91. Gunnar Wolf - (all packages)

  92. Gürkan Sengün - (all packages)

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

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

  95. Helge Kreutzmann - (all packages)

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

  97. Iain Lane - (all non-team packages) (for team packages contact the team first)

  98. Ian Wienand - (all packages)

  99. intrigeri - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

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

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

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

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

  104. Jan Dittberner - (all packages) - except: migrate

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

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

  107. 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

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

  109. Jelmer Vernooij - (all packages)

  110. ?Jeremie Corbier - (all packages)

  111. Jeremy Bicha - (all packages)

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

  113. Jeroen van Wolffelaar - (all packages)

  114. Joachim Breitner - (all packages)

  115. Joachim Reichel - (all packages)

  116. Joao Eriberto Mota Filho - (all packages) - except: co-maintained - Co-maintainers welcome

  117. ?Jochen Friedrich - (all packages) - except: net-snmp - Comaintainers welcome. - comment: net-snmp Please commit to SVN first.

  118. Joe Wreschnig - (all packages)

  119. Joey Hess - (all packages)

  120. ?John Goerzen - (all packages)

  121. ?John Wright - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome - except: python-debian already team-maintained

  122. Jon Dowland/jmtd - (all packages)

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

  124. Joost Yervante Damad - (all packages)

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

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

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

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

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

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

  131. Julien Danjou - (all packages)

  132. ?Kalle Kivimaa - (all packages)

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

  134. ?Karl Bartel - (all packages)

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

  136. 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.

  137. Kumar Appaiah - (all packages)

  138. ?Kyle McMartin - (all packages)

  139. Lars Wirzenius - (all packages)

  140. 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.

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

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

  143. Lucas Nussbaum - (all packages)

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

  145. 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)

  146. Marco Rodrigues - (all packages)

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

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

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

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

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

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

  153. Martin Meredith - (all packages)

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

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

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

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

  158. Matej Vela - (all packages)

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

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

  161. Matthew Garrett - (all packages)

  162. Matthew Johnson - (all packages)

  163. Micah Anderson - (all packages)

  164. Michael Banck - (all packages)

  165. 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.

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

  167. ?Michael Janssen - (all packages)

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

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

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

  171. Miguel Gea Milvaques - (all packages)

  172. Mohammed Adnène Trojette - (all packages)

  173. Moray Allan - (all packages)

  174. Moritz Muehlenhoff - (all packages)

  175. Morten Hustveit - (all packages)

  176. Morten Werner Forsbring - (all packages)

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

  178. Neil McGovern - (all packages)

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

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

  181. Nicolas Duboc - (all packages)

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

  183. ?Niv Sardi - (all packages)

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

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

  186. ?Ondřej Surý - (all packages)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  197. Pierre Machard - (all packages)

  198. ?Qingning Huo - (all packages)

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

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

  201. Raphael Geissert - (all packages)

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

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

  204. ReneMayorga - (all packages)

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

  206. ?Richard Nelson - (all packages) -

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

  208. Robert Collins - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

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

  210. Robert Lemmen - (all packages)

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

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

  213. Rodrigo Gallardo - (all packages)

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

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

  216. ?Rogério Brito - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  217. ?Recai Oktaş - (all packages)

  218. 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

  219. Romain Beauxis - (all packages)

  220. Ross Burton - (all packages)

  221. Ruben Molina - (all packages)

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

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

  224. 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

  225. Ryszard Aach - (all packages)

  226. 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

  227. Sam Morris - (all packages)

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

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

  230. Serafeim Zanikolas - (all packages) - comment: before NMUing please send me a direct email and wait 24 hours for a reply

  231. Sergio Talens-Oliag - (all packages)

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

  233. ?Simon Josefsson - (all packages)

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

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

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

  237. Stefan Potyra - (all packages)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  245. ?Sylvain Thénault - all packages

  246. ?Sylvestre Ledru - all packages - Comaintainers welcome

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

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

  249. Thijs Kinkhorst - (all packages)

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

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

  252. ?ThomasPreudhomme - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

  253. Thorsten “mirabilos” Glaser - kwalletcli libbsd-arc4random-perl php-htmlpurifier pidgin-openpgp rs - only listed packages - check with me on Freenode IRC (/msg memoserv send mirabilos ping) but if I don’t answer within an hour, go ahead

  254. Tobias Klauser - (all packages)

  255. Tobias Quathamer - (all packages) - except: iso-codes - Comaintainers welcome

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

  257. Tommi Vainikainen - http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=tvainika+thv%2Bdebian%40iki.fi|all packages]])

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

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

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

  261. ?Varun Hiremath - (all packages) - Comaintainers welcome

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

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

  264. Vincent Danjean - (all packages)

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

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

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

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

  269. 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.

  270. 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.

  271. Zak B. Elep - (all packages)

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


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