On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:55:05PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >* Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> [2007-11-23 17:17]: >> With the upload of debian-maintainers version 1.3, the following >> changes to the keyring have been made: >> >> dm:kartik.mistry@gmail.com >> Full name: Kartik Mistry > >I don't know if that was such a good idea, see #452464 Wow, the linhdd package is *special*. Based on initial analysis of this package, please remove: * the DM (Kartik Mistry) from the keyring (he clearly needs to learn more before he should be allowed to upload directly) * the upload rights of the sponsor (Ramakrishnan M <rkrishnan@debian.org>) who uploaded this to incoming without any suitable level of checking. This is a *much* more important problem IMHO. * the package itself The package contains an i386 binary (abs_fdisk)in a binary-all package, directly installed from a binary that comes in the upstream source packages. To accompany that, there are the following highlights: * a README.Debian stating "linhdd also has binary called 'abs_fdisk' which is used for linhdd working correctly. util-linux is provided for its source. "To save archive space, the package is set to Architecture: all. Please do not report this as a bug on the mentioned architectures." * a lintian.override file to suppress errors about it * "changed" source files that claim to be used in fdisk and abs_fdisk I expect a *much* higher standard of packages in our archive, and I hope I'm not alone here. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com "C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone
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