In <200904222238.30351.variosin...@gmail.com>, Manolete, ese artista... wrote: >El Miércoles 22 Abril 2009 19:12:26 Modestas Vainius escribió: >> Everybody knows such delays are bad but ftp-masters have always kept and >> keep doing it anyway (with quite rare exceptions). And it has been like >> this for years. There even used to be no publically available NEW queue >> listing in the past so it felt like packages kept disappearing into a >> misterious black hole. > >Damn. How much "bureaucracy" is involved in all that stuff...
The NEW queue serves an important purpose. It it the last line of defense Debian/SPI has against accidentally violating copyright by distributing something incorrectly. IIRC, packages only have to go through the queue once. >Besides, > that attitude may give users the unfair impression that's it's > maintainers' fault, :s That is unfortunate. > Patience and good humor, ;). Shade and sweet water. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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