On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 10:21:34AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > It has been deemed "too buggy to be in Debian" by the ftp team, who don't > > have the authority to make such determinations on their own. > Doesn't the ftp team have authority over determining what goes > into the archive? I would have thought so, given that they bear the > (legal) brunt of any fallout from mistakes made there. This bug is not about a legal issue. > > Downgrading this bug; I have requested that the ftp team remove these > > overreaching archive checks that have no basis in Policy's > > requirements, and intend to follow up with a GR if necessary. > I think this degrades the quality of implementation, and given > that only three packages have this, it should be easy enough to fix. > Less time would be spent fixing these issues than draging on a fight in > a GR No, the damage to the project of letting the ftp team dictate Policy would be permanent. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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