On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:47:30PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > (I rarely do these > > days, rather rely on the maintainer to check build status and > > logs). > > This is not such a good idea. Maintainers are generally not > responsible for checking build status and logs; the port maintainer > (whoever is responsible for making the binary NMU) should do that andn > file an RC bug. > > Indeed, there are many packages that miss getting into testing because > of some problem uploading or building one port or another, and > maintainers in general seem to be totally unaware of these. I think > the people who take responsibility for uploading the binary NMUs for > various ports need to also take the responsibility for filing bugs > when things are failing.
I think that's a drastically unfair judgement. I would rather ask every maintainer to do a few extra steps for the quality of their packages (or better yet, to improve automated systems to notify (opt-in) maintainers about such problems). The port maintainers already have a significant amount of work to do on this front, and are generally package maintainers themselves also. Of course, I expect James to insert a comment here about how it isn't really that much work... but we all accept that James is superhuman. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
