On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:43:14PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 06:22:45AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > There's a trust issue invovled here. CIM(you do know what that is, don't > > you?) requires notifications to be sent to the US gov't for ALL new packages. > > This slows things down. > Ouch. Well, dpkg is just stalled because of by-hand, and libc0.3 is just > renamed from libc0.2 because of the ABI change. Do you know if renaming > requires to file notifications? If the source package is renamed, a notification definitely needs to be sent, because there's no way to automatically distinguish between a completely new package and a package whose name has changed; so letting the system automatically notify for all new source packages will in fact probably be quicker than asking ftp-master to sort through those packages by hand and special-case the ones that are renamed. I don't know what the policy is for new binary packages from an existing source package. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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