Re: NEW processing
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 07:52:06PM +0200, George Danchev wrote:
> I'm afraid that skipping the 3rd thing `trying to reduce the number of bugs in
> Debian' [1] would lead to a massive waste of time for autobuilders caused by
> these subsequent uploads meant to bring the package(s) in a technically sane
> shape, that is what would have been rejected by the ftpmasters in the first
> place. So, it is much better these to be detected and probably rejected
> before doing any more harm on their way. Low quality packages won't help
> users either, nor these users get the finally fixed and brought into
> relatively sane shape package faster.
No, this is condescending and implies that the ftp-team knows more about
package quality than the other developers, when that is not true and nor
should it be true as a condition of holding that role.
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