On 03/12/08 at 19:52 +0200, George Danchev wrote: > I'm afraid that skipping the 3rd thing `trying to reduce the number of bugs > in > Debian' [1] would lead to a massive waste of time for autobuilders caused by > these subsequent uploads meant to bring the package(s) in a technically sane > shape, that is what would have been rejected by the ftpmasters in the first > place.
Buildds are machines, that only eat power. Unless we have a GR to change the SC to "Our priorities are our users, free software and the environment", I don't think that we should value power higher than DDs and users' frustrations. > So, it is much better these to be detected and probably rejected > before doing any more harm on their way. Low quality packages won't help > users either, nor these users get the finally fixed and brought into > relatively sane shape package faster. I'm quite sure that most of our users would value "getting all new versions of important software a week earlier" higher than "get packages later, but with less packaging bugs". As already pointed out in this thread, lots of people use Ubuntu despite the (perceived) lower quality of universe packages :P -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
