-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Troup. He was unusually polite, but the mail exchange ended with > him announcing that "Well, sorry, but I'm personally not > prepared to add (overrides for) a package to unstable with nothing but > an 8k binary and a 1k manpage." [...]
> This is not the first time that I have had a package rejected for > being "too small", giving myself the impression that my work is not > appreciated by Debian. Maybe I don't add enough bloat to my packages? Maybe you split too much? ;-) > Bringing the linux-atm source package into a state that allows > building br2684ctl locally why not automatically building it was > another half day of fighting with automake. > Well, to make things short, the people who asked me to include > br2684ctl with linux-atm have prepared their own package - of course > still only consisting of an 8k binary and a 1k manpage and uploaded to > unstable. This time, the package was promptly ACCEPTed in a matter of > days > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2003/debian-devel-changes-200311/msg00760.html). [...] > Even if this is not a personal issue of Mr. Troup towards me, having > ftpmaster behave like A today and like B tomorrow is a bad thing. If I > had a chance of knowing beforehand if a package uploaded will be > handled by Mr. Troup or somebody else, there would be a chance of > being handled fairly, but if the ftpmasters obviously don't > communicate with each other, and if there won't be a method of getting > ftpmaster's opionion about a new package before any more time is > wasted, maintainers will continue to be chased away, which is a loss > for Debian. [...] As you were asking for opinions: I do think it is ok for ftpmaster to reject the package, imho the rationale for the split "to distinguish between unreleased development software and released software versions." is a little bit weak. However the inconsistency that another member of the ftp-master team accepted an identical package later is a really bad thing. cu andreas, who does not want you to stop your Debian work for evident reasons. - -- Hey, da ist ein Ballonautomat auf der Toilette! Unofficial _Debian-packages_ of latest unstable _tin_ http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/tin-snapshot/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/sLijHTOcZYuNdmMRAl1EAJ4pfTFRpKQ2yxYwpm5llsmwItgdmgCfba4w 4zYhEZKbzda4EIIZ9RpvcW0= =kWCb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----