On March 6, 2018 7:27:40 PM UTC, Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> wrote: >On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 19:18 +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 06:34:28PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: >> > What might be reasonable is making the separation between binNEW >and srcNEW >> > more obvious, especially for us on the other side. This would also >> > encourage the ftpmasters to skip license checks for binNEW -- but >again, >> > without knowing their workflow I'm not in a position to improve it. >> >> I know for a fact that quite regularly licence checks on binNEW >packages >> causes RC bugs to pop up. I acknowledge it may be a burder for the >ftp >> team, but that reason alone probably deserves to keep binNEW as it >is. > >That would seem to justify some sort of randomized spot checks on the >archive, not arbitrarily focussing on the subset of packages which >happen to need a new binary package for some reason. > >Ian.
Anyone is free to do that at anytime. It doesn't take any special powers. Scott K