On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 08:37:28PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > What harm are the packages doing sitting in unstable? Distributing them > does not have much point, but neither does removing them.
the rather few people working on (fully and partly) automated QA have to
spend brain and cpu cycles on it
> If someone does want to come along and fix the package, having it pass
> through NEW again is not a good use of ftpteam time.
first, that's partly why I suggested 3 months delays/warnings for these
autoremovals. second, during this time, like for the testing
autoremovals, a simple mail to that bug could+should reset the counter
of that 3 months period again. third, ftpmasters are smart, if exactly the
same package gets reuploaded i'm pretty confident the ftpmasters
can+will detect that easily and make it go through NEW faster. fourth,
sometimes people need incentives to do some work, I believe autoremovals
provide such incentives.
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cheers,
Holger
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