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Re: madison



On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:17:03AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
> 
> > The sponsor is, as far as Debian is concerned. S/He's the one we trust to
> > ensure that upload doesn't contain trojans, and the one we can actually
> > identify if we have any need to.
> >
> > Sponsorship is a gaping hole in our trust model.
> 
> Maybe sponsored packages go into a separate dist/, not sid/, but maybe
> sponsors/?  

why?

> Oh, and we need to make absolutely sure no sponsored packages ever
> get into testing.

no, sponsored packages are normal packages. IMHO sponsored packages
normal 'better' packages, because _two_ 'maintainters' watch and test
the code before the upload.

maybe we need some guidelines. 

With this guidelines, we can secure that
 - every can see, that it is a sponsore packages
 - the sponsor get the bug reports (the sponsor-package@ thing)
 - the new maintainer is in nm.debian.org (but maybe without ID check
   now)
 - the qualities of the sponsoring (the watch and testing part) are
   the same.
 - <insert others points>

If we need this, make a RFC, but don't close the door, don't put
packages in a second class.

Gruss
Grisu
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