On 09/20/2011 01:59 PM, Jonathan Lange wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:09:54PM -0700, Evan Broder wrote: >>> If we're going to focus on making this easier, can we focus on the >>> first two options? Historically speaking, packages that live solely in >>> Ubuntu and aren't part of any release's user experience tend to end up >>> largely orphaned by a MOTU team that's overworked and understaffed. >> >> Amen. Even just from fixing builds over the last few weeks, I'm getting >> tired of fixing stuff that was stuffed into Ubuntu a few releases ago >> and then ignored! > > Do those who stuffed it in get alerted of breaks?
yes, see my emails to -announce about build failures. Then have a look at http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20110816-oneiric.html and hover over the version numbers to see the ones who to blame ;) No, there is no automatic notification (same for merges). > What reason would they have to care? not sure I do understand you. What reason did they give to have it in the distribution in the first place? -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
