On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 19:45, Gerfried Fuchs <rho...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi! > > * Aron Xu <a...@debian.org> [2011-08-30 13:14:59 CEST]: >> Sorry, I am on vacation, but I can be online sometimes... I didn't see >> where is your bug report on BTS, I think it would be better to roll in >> ftp-masters to the discussions then, so they have a chance to explain >> why it was accepted, and why buildds enable contrib by default even if >> building main packages. > > Because ftp masters are only human too, and can make mistakes. Given > that there is no log of the discussion that dererk had with the unnamed > ftpmaster, this is very unfortunate, but mistakes happen. >
Yes, I agree they are only human, but I think we need to know why they do this, if they are exactly wrong (according to the Policy, they are definitely wrong) we need to help them avoid similar problems in the future. > That doesn't mean that this it was rightfully granted, and the policy > is crystal clear on this, like Vincent Bernat quoted already in > bugreport 579102 in message #129, and like I quoted again with the > opening of 639778. I don't see any need for bringing in any ftp master > for explaining a clear statement from the policy that packages in main > aren't allowed to build-depend on packages outside of main. > As commented above, we don't need them to interpret or explain Policy, but at least I myself want them to explain why they chose to accept packages like this, and why the buildds have contrib enabled by default for main packages. -- Regards, Aron Xu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
