On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 06:35:33PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> I've prepared an initial draft of a developers reference patch that
> would document a package salvaging process. Please see below.
Hi Mike,
I'm not convinced that we need an additional procedure for package salvaging
because we
Michael Gilbert writes:
> Just to give you an idea of what I'm thinking long-term: salvaging will
> one day obsolete MIA. If maintainership changes become self-directed,
> then ultimately there is no longer a need for a MIA team to pester
> people (which no one wants to do anyway). MIA'ness wil
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Michael Gilbert writes:
>
>> Interesting condition. According to Developers Reference 5.9.4,
>> orphaning is a process that is only supposed to be initiated by the
>> existing maintainer.
>
> Orphaning is also done by the QA team, and it's fre
Michael Gilbert writes:
> Interesting condition. According to Developers Reference 5.9.4,
> orphaning is a process that is only supposed to be initiated by the
> existing maintainer.
Orphaning is also done by the QA team, and it's frequently been done by
other people after discussion in debian-
As a reminder to myself if these changes were to gain traction,
section 5.9.5 (adopting a package) will also need some rewriting since
certain instructions overlap salvaging.
Best wishes,
Mike
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On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Michael Gilbert, 2012-07-16, 18:35:
>
>> +
>> +If a package has been already been orphaned, you may salvage it without
>> any
>> +kind of approval.
>> +
>> +
>> +
>> +Filing a removal request against ftp.debian.org, then reintroducing the
>> pa
* Michael Gilbert , 2012-07-16, 18:35:
+
+If a package has been already been orphaned, you may salvage it without any
+kind of approval.
+
+
+
+Filing a removal request against ftp.debian.org, then reintroducing the package
+with yourself as the maintainer is considered adversarial and is explici
package: developers-reference
severity: normal
version: 3.4.8
tag: patch
Hi,
I've prepared an initial draft of a developers reference patch that
would document a package salvaging process. Please see below.
Best wishes,
Mike
--- pkgs.dbk.orig 2012-07-16 18:19:56.065047490 -0400
+++ pkgs.
Russ Allbery writes:
> Jonathan Nieder writes:
>
>> How about this?
>
>> diff --git i/policy.sgml w/policy.sgml
>> index 7d514921..58bde0bb 100644
>> --- i/policy.sgml
>> +++ w/policy.sgml
>> @@ -3766,8 +3766,9 @@ Checksums-Sha256:
>>
>>The field name identifies the
Ben Pfaff writes:
> Is a hyphen desirable there?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen#Compound_modifiers says:
> In the 19th century, it was common to hyphenate
> adverb–adjective modifiers with the adverb ending in -ly.
> However, this has become rare. For example, wholly owned
>
Jonathan Nieder writes:
> How about this?
> diff --git i/policy.sgml w/policy.sgml
> index 7d514921..58bde0bb 100644
> --- i/policy.sgml
> +++ w/policy.sgml
> @@ -3766,8 +3766,9 @@ Checksums-Sha256:
>
> The field name identifies the VCS. The field's value uses the
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