On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:23:55 +0200, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: >As far as I can tell the FTP team bases its accept/reject decisions on >whether it's legal for us to distribute a package (and whether it's >suitable for the component it was uploaded to in terms of the dfsg), not >whether it's a good idea to put that package in the distribution.
The ftp team has a history of strongly discouraging uploads that they don't feel like accepting (such as a package that would download eicar.com from the internet and place it in a defined place where other packages might find and use it) and of killing of packages on grounds that "nobody sane would use them", such as clamav-data, which force-died in the course of volatile moving under the ftp team's reign. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1oynah-0005ue...@swivel.zugschlus.de
