Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br> writes: > I have one off-topic comment: I've seen some well known maintainers do > some things without the rigor that mentors apply to prospective > maintainers.
Yes. It's a little frustrating. > Wouldn't it be the case to require said maintainers to shape up their > skills so that their packages improve and, as a side effect, the quality > of the overall distribution increases? It would be nice (modulo disagreements within the project about best practices). However, Debian doesn't really have a mechanism to do so at present. > Anyway, back to my package in question, the sources are again fixed at > mentors.d.n, which can be found at: > > dget > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/magicfilter/magicfilter_1.2-62.dsc It looks like there's an accidental change to the timestamp for the previous release in debian/changelog: @@ -12,7 +23,7 @@ from a homebrew build to a debhelper + quilt package management (and this will take care of some lintian warnings of the "pedantic" level). - -- Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br> Thu, 07 May 2009 03:44:17 -0300 + -- Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br> Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:28:18 -0300 magicfilter (1.2-60.1) unstable; urgency=low Please upload again with that fixed and I'll sponsor this. Thank you for your work on the package! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org