On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 04:08:23PM +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > > > I don't know if that has been proposed before, but how about waiving > > > the NEW queue requirement for experimental packages as a start? > > > [...] Since packages in experimental will never land in any > > > official release, I think dropping the NEW queue requirement has no > > > negative impact. > > This makes no sense as NEW is mostly about checking licenses. > > I think this is exactly why it makes sense. I think we can trust the > DDs to not make any large mistakes (e.g. putting steam in main). The existence of NEW means we currently don't, for completely new packages.
> Since packages in experimental aren't supposed to be used by anyone else > but the DDs themselves, the "damage" of a potentially missing / wrong > license is minimal, considering that DDs are aware of the fact that the > packages aren't "official". The "damage" that's usually being discussed is Debian distributing something we can't, not users e.g. getting non-free software thinking it's free. Packages in NEW aren't even publicly accessible because of this, and discussions of switching to git-based source packages end with "we can't publish git history of random repos as we don't want to review and rewrite it". > However I find that view a bit weird. Any update can change the license > or add new files with different licenses, nothing is ever checked by the > ftp-masters (that would be insanity). Sure. -- WBR, wRAR
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