Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While I personally try to take care to only upload pristine .orig.tar.gz
> for my own packages (and even think that using the delete option might
> be preferable to unpacking and packing again) I distinctly think that
> this is out of the scope of NEW checking,
Joerg doesn't think so, but it's in his minor issues section. See:
http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html
second entry in the second table.
> Rejecting for non-critical packaging issues would not only further
> increase the reject ratio but also require a lot of additional work.
Joerg has been moving towards doing more of this, and I applaud him for
doing so. I hope that anyone else who works on NEW does the same. It's
one of our best opportunities to raise the general quality of the archive
up-front, rather than filing bugs and trying to chase down maintainers who
sometimes no longer care now that their software is in the archive.
That being said, I certainly agree that there's a tradeoff, and even as
Lintian maintainer I certainly wouldn't support, say, rejecting on any
Lintian-reported problem. It's just that repackaging of .orig.tar.gz
files is something that Lintian currently isn't in a position to check
easily, and hence NEW is about the *only* place anyone looks at this.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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