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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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