Holger Levsen writes ("Re: julia_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED"):
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 03:19:33PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Why is any of this a reason for an ftpmaster REJECT ? I still think
> > all of this should be handled as bugs (possibly RC bugs) in the BTS
> > in the conventional way, after ACCEPT.
>
> because why accept rc-buggy software in the archive (when we know it's
> rc-buggy), whether at NEW time or with any following upload?
Because:
* Discussions about the RC bugs can be more effectively dealt with
using our existing discussion mechanisms, including primarily the
Debian BTS. Compared to REJECT mails:
- Discussions in the BTS are more transparent
- Discussions in the BTS are better organised
- Discussions in the BTS can have wider participation
- Discussions in the BTS are better archived
- Discussions in the BTS have better metadata
* Publishing a work-in-progress in the Debian archive enables more
people to more easily help improve and fix it.
* Once a package is accepted metadata about it, and parts of it, are
automatically published by a variety of Debian services, making it
much easier to work with - for example, one can see who the
maintainer is and what its issues are.
* ftpmasters are already far too overloaded looking for problems like
unredistributability, dfsg-nonfreeness, malformed packages,
breakages of the archive, etc.
* It is not ftpmasters' role to determine whether a package is
RC-buggy; that task is for the Release Team.
> (in that sense I would appreciate packages getting automatically tested
> (and rejected if needed) before they enter *unstable*, and then again,
> with stricter automatic tests before they enter testing.)
I agree that automatic checking is fine, but humans should be able to
override it. I have no problem with auto-REJECTs, which are generally
either for really serious problems, or can be overridden.
Ian.
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