Re: DAM and NEW queues processing
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:00:23PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 02:04:34AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
>
> > > Something is definitely wrong here, IMHO.
>
> > Maybe it's your assumption or assertion that the only point of NEW is
> > checking the copyright file.
>
> He's right that binary NEW is not the right time to be applying unrelated
> sourceful checks to packages. If ftpmaster feels the need to spot-check
> packages, that's fine, but that shouldn't be coupled to package renames
> where the purpose of NEW is to keep control of the package namespace and set
> the archive overrides.
Well, one thing one might thing of: Auditing soname-changes. However, I
guess the release-team would be the better group to evaluate those and I
do not have an immediate idea on how to do this without causing major
delays.
Michael
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