(+cc: bug#196367, which proposes documenting overrides as authoritative) Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 02:29:46PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Bill Allombert wrote:
>>> Did you try to report the bug directly to the ftp-masters ? >>> If we decide that the ftp-masters are maintaining the field and >>> not the package maintainers that would be the logical thing to >>> do. [...] >> The ftp-masters aren't currently responsible for updating >> debian/control, nor for letting the packagers know that their package >> is now more important. > > Indirectly, they are: when you upload a package with a priority which does not > match the override file, you get an email which tell you to fix the priority > in the next upload. > >> I thought the sanity-check from the package >> maintainer could be useful, too. > > One could use X-Debbugs-CC: > > (What I am aiming at is that such bug reports to maintainers are > seen as causing trouble (but probably not the ones you reported!) > and are not strictly required, thus maybe we recommend to only > report the bug to the FTP masters). Sounds good to me. :) (as long as FTP-masters don't mind the continued burden of dealing with proposed override changes as they come) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141118000053.gd4...@google.com
