[Offlist] On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Charles Plessy wrote:
> I would welcome something like "The maintainer > decides, and can be overruled by the Technical Comittee if needed". That is what we have now, as usual other contributors will obviously question decisions made where they consider them bad. For example the firmware-linux-free maintainer chose to ship prebuilt firmware instead of building it from source and I strongly disagree with that. > the unpredictability of when a source package goes to NEW (that is, > when the list of binary packages changes), That is entirely predictable and under the control of the Debian package maintainer since it only changes when the maintainer updates debian/control. > (since it contains things that would not be accepted anymore) This is inevitable since Debian maintainers aren't always aware of upstream dev practices or don't check things well enough (cf #383465). -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6G8R2ds7CFFhpib28=zDaDk+wVi=dxb_ynazpm0scx...@mail.gmail.com
