On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > I would welcome clearer rules to decide what is strictly required to be built > from source. In particular, I would welcome something like "The maintainer > decides, and can be overruled by the Technical Comittee if needed". What > follows is not intended as a gratuitous rant but is my experience of a > packager: the long delays at the NEW queue, the variability of the decisions > (which depend on who reviews the package), the unpredictability of when a > source package goes to NEW (that is, when the list of binary packages > changes), > and the impossibility of using our archive as a guide of what is acceptable > (since it contains things that would not be accepted anymore) are making it > too difficult to support packages over years.
If you have a NEW queue processing speed/style itch then scratch it. The ftp team always seems in need and ready to welcome NEW volunteers. Best wishes, Mike -- 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/CANTw=mnkd2uyfj0uxt1n2+v9cyu7u3qlwv6fpec8sbrvn5j...@mail.gmail.com
