Re: Access to packages in the NEW queue

2016-07-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:23:39AM +0200, Simon Kainz wrote: > results being sent back to the uploader. This would somehome extend the > current checks for rejects, but probably more focused on QA rather than > policy topics. Very sensible. I could for instance think of "installs files that is pa

Re: Access to packages in the NEW queue

2016-07-05 Thread Simon Kainz
t;> >> What do you think about this anyway? And who may i prod to get access to >> packages in the NEW queue? ;-) > > You won't get access to the actual packages. That's because the main > purpose of NEW is to block non-dfsg stuff, which means there ca

Re: Access to packages in the NEW queue

2016-07-05 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
o get access to > packages in the NEW queue? ;-) You won't get access to the actual packages. That's because the main purpose of NEW is to block non-dfsg stuff, which means there can be (and sadly often it's the case) that there might be unredistributable files (which of course we

Re: Access to packages in the NEW queue

2016-07-05 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, I believe that the reason there is no access to them is that they have not yet been verified as DFSG-compliant, so they can't be distributed by Debian servers. You'd have to ask the ftp-masters about some kind of exception to this. -- Sean Whitton

Access to packages in the NEW queue

2016-07-05 Thread Simon Kainz
Hello, I would like to ask for options/help concerning access to packages in the new queue: As we are running already lots of automatic testing tools on various machines, i was thinking about running e.g. check-all-the-things on packages in the NEW queue, so *before* they enter the archive? I