Kevin Mark wrote: > You mean they check ever single time $RANDOM_PACKAGE enter NEW and don't > assume its correct until someone raises an objections? I'd at least > think you could create a sub-queue in NEW so that already tagged > standard licenses would get processed faster and others would be in a > location to allow for special license processing. Well, de facto a package that only has a soname bump will likely not be license-reexamined. For truly new packages, though, there is no way to get around a thorough examination by someone paying careful attention and the ftpmasters are really doing a good job at this. Unfortunately there are enough maintainers that are sloppy in the fulfillment/ignorant of the requirements of the debian/copyright file[1] to lessen the ftpmasters' burden. dh-make's brokenness[2] doesn't help. In fact, a random new package mentioned on debian-mentors will likely not have a correct copyright file. At the time of writing this, the last open RFS for a new package is stegosnow[3]. It does display this problem.
Kind regards T. 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/12/msg00007.html 2. http://bugs.debian.org/336982 3. http://sponsors.debian.net/viewpkg.php?id=218 -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
