On 02/08/09 at 16:07 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 02:58:27PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Speaking of which it might be nice to have some area in > > collab-maint's VCSes where to put orphaned (and even removed) > > packages, so that it's cleared they're kind-of-dropped. > > This seems to be a recurring proposal. I raised it 1 year ago (IIRC, > sorry I'm too lazy right now to look the reference) and Raphael > Hertzog pointed out to me that way before he advanced the same > proposal. > > The counter-argument I received 1 year ago is that we do not want to > make any easier to "maintain" orphaned packages, e.g., via QA > uploads. While I somehow understand that point of view, I still > consider the proposal a good idea, mainly because it technically > facilitates resurrecting the packages for the future maintainer. > > Cheers.
Actually, the counter-argument is that we don't want to make it *harder* to do a QA upload. Currently, it's "apt-get source ; make change ; dput". If we used a VCS, we would have to create: - a process to auto-import orphaned packages into the VCS - procedures to commit changes to VCS before doing QA uploads I don't have numbers about that, but a fair share of QA uploads are done by one- or two-timers, even a majority of uploads is done by QA folks. We don't want to make it harder for those one-timers to improve the status of orphaned packages. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org