Re: serious problems with Mr. Troup
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 03:52:43 +0100, Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr> said:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 07:53:19PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> > It's standard procedure for non-DD to get someone with a key in
>> > the keyring to sign their message so that it will go through
>> > debian-devel-announce. Think of it as a form of sponsorship, for
>> > mailing lists instead of packages.
>>
>> I would expect to see the developers name on the headers of the
>> message, then. It should not appear to come from the non-dd.
> Well, as much as I'd like to agree with you on that, if we make a
> what seems to be a valid parallel with sponsored uploads, we don't
> require people to put their name in Changed-By or Maintainer or
> other fields, only that they check the package. They can be traced
> through the signature, like in this case.
There is a reason sponsored uploads are done -- it allows
people to get experience developing packages, and helps them get a
head start in the NM process. It gets software into Debian that would
not otherwise get in.
I fail to see how getting an inappropriate message on to d-d-a
qualifies -- unless you compare it to sponsoring a trojan to by pass
the normal safeguards we have about unrestricted uploads into the
archive.
manoj
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