On March 10, 2016 2:20:10 AM EST, "Otto Kekäläinen" <o...@seravo.fi> wrote: >Hello Andreas and ftp-masters! > >First, thanks to Andreas for looking after the mariadb-10.0 package >and helping with it. > >However, please note that your bug report #817263 did not reach the >maintainers/uploaders of the mariadb-10.0 package and we had no idea >that you where requesting cruft removal in parallel with our work. >Please next time make sure the bug report is CC'd to >mariadb-10.0@p.b.o or some equivalent address. > >The original plan was to wait until the package renaming/refactoring >process was complete and then file the removal of all correct packages >in one go. It would have been nice to have a chance to discuss this >earlier and not just find out things after the fact when somebody else >did something different, unnecessary and potentially even harmful. > >Scott and other FTP-masters: please check with package >maintainers/uploaders before executing any kind of small or large >removal requests from non-maintainers. > >Andreas: we appreciate your help and QA work and we want you to help >us in the future too. Please just remember to send an e-mail or file a >bug against the package so that maintainers can review things the next >time - do not execute upload or "unupload" actions on your own before >consulting maintainers first. Thanks!
>From an FTP team perspective that doesn't scale very well. Perhaps the best >way is to have reportbug automatically CC the maintainer on an rm bug. Scott K P.S. Apologies for the mess. I have a copy of all the bugs that got closed and will reopen them if no one else gets to it first.
