]] Marc Haber > On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 00:24:20 +0100, Wouter Verhelst > <wou...@debian.org> wrote: > > >If the release team is willing to consider exceptions when > >the automated machinery was jumping the gun a little, however, then > >okay, I think it might be a good idea to try this out. > > If you only get an exception if your package is so important that the > press will mention us like "Debian stretch is missing the important > foo package", then I wouldn't want to even try this. If getting an > exception is the normal case, then, fine, try it. But why would be > bother to write this in policy if we intend to do this as the normal > case?
I don't understand why you think the criteria for allowing a package back in is «is important». It might just as well be «is the maintainer doing an honest effort here, or is it just a drive-by upload?» or something else. I'm not going to pretend to be able to read the release team's collective mind. > >Being rigid about such policies is never a good thing, though. > > Yes. And I am afraid that this policy is being as rigid as a two inch > steel wall. It sounds like you have had very different interactions with the release team than I have. In my experience, they're doing a difficult job, and doing it well, trying to accomodate everybody while still making progress towards releasing. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are