Hi Charles, On 10-04-13 00:56, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 05:54:14PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit : >> >>> Suggestion #3: have a system where any other DD can review >>> a package in the NEW queue, not only the FTP masters or the >>> FTP assistants. >> >> That would include publishing the contents of the NEW queue, >> at least to all Debian Developers - so we might violate >> licenses already. > > I have not read any convincing argument in favor of our current practice, not > to mention that most arguments are guesses on the reasons of the persons in > charge rather than a clear statement from the persons in charge themselves. > > We do not have much measures in place to ensure that our archive does not > contain packages that start to violate licenses after their first upload. In > parallel, we have a lot of download points that are not subjected to copyright > and license review. I do not see a reason why the NEW queue must be more > perfect than both our archive and the rest of the non-aptable files we > distribute.
It is a mistake to believe that NEW queue handling only exists for the benefit of license compliance checking. Yes, that is a big part of it, but AIUI, the ftp-masters need to do a lot more than that for packages in NEW. -- Copyshops should do vouchers. So that next time some bureaucracy requires you to mail a form in triplicate, you can mail it just once, add a voucher, and save on postage. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51650ec7.5050...@debian.org
