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Re: On doing 3000 no-source-change source-only uploads in January 2021



Hello Holger,

I will do my part myself ASAP

Kind regards

Mechtilde

Am 31.12.20 um 14:21 schrieb Holger Levsen:
> Hi Bernd,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 02:16:23PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>>> as described in Message-ID: <[🔎] 20201231124509.GB3305@layer-acht.org>
>>> or http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20201231-no-source-change-source-uploads/
>>> I plan to do 3000 NMUs soon. 
>> Thanks for your work!
> 
> thanks!
>  
>> Although the high number of packages makes me wonder, if at least a
>> quick MIA check of the maintainers is warranted, or - if those packages
>> are needed in bullseye at all.
>> Of course, there are some packages which are working just fine with the
>> same source for years, but at least some debhelper/compat or policy
>> check and upload at some point makes sense.
>>
>> I think Debian should sometimes be better and faster in removing
>> unmaintained stuff.
> 
> while I agree in principle I have to say that in practice it's not doable
> for me, uploading 3000 packages doing just the basic checks that I do is a
> major task already, if I add any other QA measure which requieres human
> consideration (like removal) it becomes a much much bigger task, deluting 
> my original goal of fixing the issue of missing .buildinfo files. Even
> just running lintian-brush would at least double the amount, though I believe
> the impact would be even higher.
> 
> that said, I filed a bug to get src:embedian-archive-keyring removed from
> sid and then bullseye. That was one striking example I found going through
> those first 570 packages...
> 
> 

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