On Friday, December 28, 2012 06:44:37 PM Stéphane Graber wrote: > On 12/28/2012 06:37 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > The existence of > > http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_2.5.11ubuntu12 > > .10.1.dsc was recently mentioned #ubuntu-devel. This seems to be in > > direct > > contradiction of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppReviewBoard/Review/Guidelines > > - in particular "Apps should not be forks or updates of existing > > applications in the Ubuntu archive (main/universe/etc). ". > > > > Who was this discussed with outside the ARB before it was uploaded? As > > it > > stands, lintian will be upgraded to this version in any quantal system > > where extras has not been disabled, so it has potential to affect > > developers that have no relation to extras or the ARB. > > > > Scott K > > I can't remember seeing any discussion about this and it's a clear > violation of what was approved by the Technical Board in regard to the > extras repository. > > I've removed the lintian package from the ARB PPA and that removal > should be propagated to the extras archive in the next hour or so. > > I'd appreciate if someone from the ARB could explain what was the > reasoning behind this upload so that we can make sure whatever problem > it was trying to address indeed gets addressed but without causing > problem with the main archive.
And for the record, this upload broke lintian4python, so it wasn't without affect on the main archive. Scott K -- Ubuntu-release mailing list Ubuntu-release@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release