Re: Barriers between packages and other people (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Matthias, Quoting Matthias Urlichs (2024-12-15 06:33:35) > On 12.12.24 12:48, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 08:57:57AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >> On 04.12.24 18:08, Andreas Tille wrote: > >>> in the > >>> absence of a debian/dont_touch_my_package file, any Debian Dev

Re: Barriers between packages and other people (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-14 Thread Matthias Urlichs
On 12.12.24 12:48, Holger Levsen wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 08:57:57AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: On 04.12.24 18:08, Andreas Tille wrote: in the absence of a debian/dont_touch_my_package file, any Debian Developer is permitted to upload the package. I like this idea. so you like reali

Re: Barriers between packages and other people (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-12 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 08:57:57AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > On 04.12.24 18:08, Andreas Tille wrote: > > in the > > absence of a debian/dont_touch_my_package file, any Debian Developer is > > permitted to upload the package. > I like this idea. so you like reality. good. -- cheers,

Re: Barriers between packages and other people (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-12 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 04/12/24 18:08, Andreas Tille wrote: We could introduce this change starting with Debian Policy version X. Maintainers who adopt this policy version by updating the Standards-Version in their packages would implicitly agree that, in the absence of a debian/dont_touch_my_package file, any Debia

Re: Barriers between packages and other people (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-12 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 09:36:01AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > in the > > > absence of a debian/dont_touch_my_package file, any Debian Developer is > > > permitted to upload the package. > > > > I like this idea. > > > > The next step: agree on a "standard" Debian workflow and allow > >

Re: Barriers between packages and other people (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Matthias Urlichs (2024-12-12 08:57:57) > On 04.12.24 18:08, Andreas Tille wrote: > > in the > > absence of a debian/dont_touch_my_package file, any Debian Developer is > > permitted to upload the package. > > I like this idea. > > The next step: agree on a "standard" Debian workflow and a

Re: Barriers between packages and other people (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-12 Thread Matthias Urlichs
On 04.12.24 18:08, Andreas Tille wrote: in the absence of a debian/dont_touch_my_package file, any Debian Developer is permitted to upload the package. I like this idea. The next step: agree on a "standard" Debian workflow and allow (encourage?) people to convert existing packages to it (assu

Re: Barriers between packages and other people (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-04 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 06:08:00PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I wonder if we should reconsider the default assumption of package > ownership. Instead, we could introduce a file, such as > debian/dont_touch_my_package (or a similarly named file), where > maintainers can document their reasons for