Re: DFSG-violations and NEW and DFSG-violations and I would fix them, but...

2008-10-24 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Steve, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 09:44:33AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: >> Raphael Hertzog wrote: >>> Every kernel upload changing the ABI goes through NEW. > >> The typical situation here is that code that has the same set of DFSG >> bugs is already in place and so it

Re: DFSG-violations and NEW and DFSG-violations and I would fix them, but...

2008-10-24 Thread Martin Meredith
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 10:57 +0300, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > With "Like this" I mean packages that have been held back in NEW for a > > very long time without response or REJECTED with an reason not > > acceptable to the maintainer? Does mediating this

Re: DFSG-violations and NEW and DFSG-violations and I would fix them, but...

2008-10-24 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With "Like this" I mean packages that have been held back in NEW for a > very long time without response or REJECTED with an reason not > acceptable to the maintainer? Does mediating this kind of issues fall > under the authority of the TC, or should t

Re: DFSG-violations and NEW and DFSG-violations and I would fix them, but...

2008-10-24 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The typical situation here is that code that has the same set of DFSG >> bugs is already in place and so it is questionable of what a reject >> really achieves (i.e. does the archive become more DFSG-compliant or >> not) and quite typically fixes some

Re: DFSG-violations and NEW and DFSG-violations and I would fix them, but...

2008-10-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 09:44:33AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Every kernel upload changing the ABI goes through NEW. > The typical situation here is that code that has the same set of DFSG > bugs is already in place and so it is questionable of what a reject > reall