On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:28:57AM -0800, Anthony Towns wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: > >I'm certainly not suggesting that they be rejected out of hand, and > >accepting them isn't the correct decision either. Currently, though, > >it's impossible to tell the difference between "This package is awkward" > >and "This package is being ignored". Making the distinction explicit > >causes little harm. > > There are various scales of "awkward", ranging from "we might get sued > if we accept this, and we've no idea if we'd even have the law on our > side" to "gag, that's one long copyright file, I might read that after > breakfast instead". None of the packages are being ignored though.
The uploader of the package is mostly being ignored though. > It's hard to take this sort of discussion as anything but an attack on > ftpmaster, since there are plenty of teams in Debian that're even less > transparent and effective than us. But given how these sorts of But they are less a hindrance to the daily work of maintainers, and can thus more easily be avoided/worked around/whatever. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]