Hi again Andreas, Le vendredi, 3 janvier 2014, 23.53:48 Andreas Barth a écrit : > * Didier 'OdyX' Raboud (o...@debian.org) [140103 23:43]: > > Considering you've had your chance to respond to this (and given > > that you managed to respond in less than a half-hour last time), I > > have uploaded the proposed debdiff to DELAYED/5 as announced. > > Sorry, this is not acceptable.
Your take.
>From my side, I don't find acceptable that you block a reasonable patch
for a serious bug that triggers the ftp-master autoreject lintian check;
proposed since four months without a review (or any sort of statement
about the patch) from your side. I find it totally incomprehensible that
you block RC fixes for a package you haven't uploaded yourself in six
_years_.
Furthermore, the continued existence of this bug lead to the automated
removal of mgetty, courier, courier-filter-perl, mysqmail, and
couriergrey from testing [0,1]. This bug was brought to my attention by
the (non-DD) maintainer of couriergrey who was puzzled about his package
being taken out of testing. Not being able to timely fix bugs in
reverse-dependencies IMHO makes the auto-removal process just more
painful for unnecessary reasons.
For the record, the patch proposed by gregor to fix this bug has the
following stats:
mgetty-fax.dirs | 2 --
mgetty-fax.postinst | 3 +--
mgetty-fax.postrm | 1 +
3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
I think we both spent way more time arguing than it would have taken you
to properly review it and {N,}ACK it (and fix two RC bugs in the
process).
> Please remove it immediatly.
I canceled it yesterday night.
> I made a statement as maintainer I do not want this upload at this
> time and asked you for a little bit of time to review the change.
Fair enough. I initially read your "So please remove your upload until I
can review the situation again." differently than I do now; I've
probably been too stubborn, sorry for that.
> You are not authorized to behave the way you did.
As I argued before, my reading of your initial opposition (against
variations of rmdir -f) and the NMU guidelines would have initially
allowed me a direct upload. Now that you insisted on blocking all
uploads, right; sorry for that.
> Also, if it is that urgent, why did you not e.g. ping me on IRC?
It's been urgent (as in RC) for more than four months, why didn't you
review the proposed patch </sarcasm>?
Also, on a more serious tone, I generally want to keep track of bug
conversations in the public bug logs (in this case, more especially so
as you suggested an appeal to the tech-ctte…).
Anyway. I'm giving up on this for now, with the hope that mgetty's
reverse dependencies will somehow find a way towards testing.
With my best regards,
OdyX
[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-changes/2013/12/msg00050.html
[1] Arguably, courier has its own RC bug.
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