Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy
Hi Timo,
Am Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 04:08:51PM +0100 schrieb Timo Röhling:
> I guess the motivation behind the weak collaboration model is that some
> packages have hidden "gotchas", which a casual team uploader might not know.
> For instance, pygit2 is one of multiple libgit2 language bindings which all
> need to be upgraded in lock-step when a new upstream version is released.
You are making an important point here.
> Instead of restricting collaboration, we could let policy encourage
> maintainers to state such constraints in debian/README.DPT and ask team
> members to check that file before they team-upload.
I think this is a very good idea. In case MR[1] will be accepted this
should be added to the policy as well. I'm not sure whether the
"Maintainership" paragraph is the best place to add this. I wonder if
you (or someone with the same doubts) might want to suggest another MR
to add this debian/README.DPT feature.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/python-modules/-/merge_requests/20
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