On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 09:29:05PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > My understanding was that package has Debian Python Team set as > > maintainer, such that improvements and co-maintainership is welcomed. > and they are, but switching python helper or introducing a new package > are huge changes enough to require a consultation with the people that > are responsible for the package (the uploaders), which didn't happen. I didn't see this documented anywhere, and "every member is encouraged to do general QA work on all the packages: fix bugs, test packages, improve them to use the latest python packaging tools, etc." (from http://python-modules.alioth.debian.org/python-modules-policy.html ) sounds to me like an invitation to change officially deprecated helpers to dh_python2. Anyway, I would like to see some more explicit guildelines about what am I allowed to do without prior consent? Right now, after seeing similar complaints in the past, I do not feel motivated to do any work on other team packages.
> see above: team maintenance (even with team set to maintainer) doesn't > mean you can do whatever changes you see fit for the moment (and them > maybe disappear because you lost interest). small changes doesn't > require any ack from my side; adding new bin packages or changing > helper do. I never saw any definitions of what changes are small. Explicit, you know, is better than implicit. -- WBR, wRAR
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