On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:01:31AM +1100, Sam Johnston wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > >The primary purpose of this mail is to prompt a discussion of what we as > >a Project should do in the general case of surprise uploads of this > >nature which are, again, neither hijacks nor NMUs, but have some > >features of both. > > For a start, uploads by non [co-]maintainers could be held for manual > processing or rejected outright (except where uploaded in accordance > with NMU policy of the delay to a delay queue, where the > [co-]maintainers are notified at the time of the upload and have the > delay time to resolve problems).
I sense that there is too much package 'ownership' crap going on in Debian. everyone gets whingy when someone else uploads a package the maintain. the fscking header says 'Maintainer:' not 'Owner:'. A prime example of the shit that goes on, are those that re-upload after an NMU with the NMU's patching completely ignored, including the changelog. This is incredibly childish. Some will argue, 'why do we have Uploaders: then?' - I'll hasten to remind people, that this was added so that maintenance teams could all do uploads, using a common Maintainer: address (such as a mailing list) without the upload appearing as an NMU because they were in the changelog. I'm not saying that the above justifies Daniel's upload of X, as it was clearly a little too stomp-on-toes-ish, but it does raise a valid point that Branden does take a draconian approach to X, and uses it as an excuse to be a little lethargic with keeping up to date with upstream. Ok, again, I'm saying this with some naivety, as I have not read his XSF 'road map', and I have no plan to. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams