Pirate Praveen writes ("Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] three.js_80+dfsg2-2_amd64.changes REJECTED"): > On വ്യാഴം 01 മാർച്ച് 2018 05:45 വൈകു, Ian Jackson wrote: > > For the avoidance of doubt, I don't have a problem with the specific > > decision of ftpmaster here. > > Coming back to this specific rejection (I have already started a > discussion on policy question in d-policy), do you agree node-backbone > (and all other packages currently in archive and match the criteria of > rejection used for node-three, ie, a binary package with just symlinks > and a package.json) should be removed from the archive? If that is the > general agreement, I will file serious bugs against these packages > (already in the archive for years).
Firstly, I don't think this follows. It is right that the criteria for accepting a new package are stricter than the criteria for removing an existing one. Secondly, the actual question of what should be in these packages is precisely a policy question. We should decide what our policy is and then apply it. (Of course examples can illuminate the policy.) So I don't think your queston can be answered until we know what the policy should be. By "don't disagree" I don't mean "agree". I mean that the rejection seems plausible and I haven't seen enough arguments to have a firm opinion. If the policy we decide on is that the packages with just symlinks should be folded into the packages they provide links to, then yes those packages should be fixed but it is IMO unlikely to be sensibly considered an RC bug. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.