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Re: Two questions about the Debian ftp-server



Previously Steve Greenland wrote:
> I uploaded namg, a new package, on May 2nd, and it hasn't been installed
> yet.

The keyword here is `new'. Those need to be checked by hand and added
to the override file before they will be put into the archive. There is
currently a bit of a backlog for that. Packages that are already known
don't suffer from that delay.

> I've gotten two identical messages about it being a new package
> and needing to modify the overrides file, one on 5/2 and the next on
> 5/5. Both said there were no problems with the package.

No technical problems (ie properly signed, md5sums are correct),
checking the license, section, priority and grave packaging errors
is done by hand.

Wichert.

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