On 16194 March 1977, Simon McVittie wrote:
Would it be feasible for dak to have a list of binary package name
regexes mapped to a source package and a section/priority, and
auto-accept
packages from the given source package that match the regex, assigning
the given section/priority, without manual action? That would let the
ftp team pre-approve src:systemd to ship /^libsystemd-shared-[0-9]+$/
in libs/optional, for example.
At some point somewhere I think it was already said, but in general: We
love MRs, we are at https://salsa.debian.org/ftp-team/dak/ and something
doing kind of auto-NEW processing is NOT out of the question.
Exact details have to be hashed out, but this is the wrong thread for
that. While sometimes NEW can be annoying, it regularly catches bugs
even if "only a small change in packaging" happened, so it does have
some reason why its there. But yes, there are some candidates (hello
kernel) that can make use of something with less humans involved.
Your example above doesn't sound too bad as a starter, though haven't
put any further thought into it yet.
--
bye, Joerg
