On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 09:49:41AM -0300, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote: > Hi, Lucas, > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2020, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > What solutions do you envision about this issue? Is that just something > > that we have to live with? > > The FTP Team has very recently made a call for volunteers [1], so > perhaps they already have some plans?... > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2020/03/msg00003.html > > > Personnally, I wonder if we are being overly cautious about NEW. I > > wonder if we could move to checking a posteriori (accept the package in > > unstable; maybe don't let it migrate to testing until it is reviewed). > > Anyhow, I wrote to weigh in on this particular comment, because, as a > Debian Maintainer, I had only submitted two packages to the NEW queue. > On both occasions, the FTP Team found licensing issues in the packages, > even though I thought I had done a *really* great job of reading through > the copyright notices, (specially for the second package). So, I'm > glad the package had to be reviewed, even though I would had been > happier if the process had taken less time, :). > I too have found the FTP team review valuable. Like in your case, they identified an issue that I had overlooked. The part I didn't like was waiting 11 months to get that message from the FTP team and (since the FTP team rejection message included some unclear comments) not receiving a reply to my requests for clarification.
That said, I have never had a package rejected for reasons that would outright keep it from entering Debian. Each package I have had rejected could have as easily been accepted into unstable and then fixed after the fact to address whatever the problem was. For instance, omitting a particular file with a distinct (but compatible) license from listing in the copyright file or some similar minor license-related matter. None of those things seem like reasons to hold up a package entering Debian for months to nearly a year. Though, I may be mistaken in that and biased based on my own experience. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
