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Re: NEW handling ...



Hi,

Sven Luther:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:36:25PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > - check that the package names are sane, don't conflict, and
> >   aren't gratuitiously many (a -doc package for 10 kbytes of
> >   documentation...) (what's the current opinion on that, anyway?)
> 
> Don't you think maintainers are big enough to know how to handle this kind of
> decisions ? or ask the NEW-team for help before uploading ? If the package
> causes problem, it could well be removed from the archive afterward or
> something.
> 
If you ask the ftpmasters, you'd be surprised...

IMHO it's easier not to let that kind of  cruft get into the archive in
the first place than it is to clean up afterwards.

> Now, again, this is probably something that can get automated

Sure. Some of it.

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Matthias Urlichs   |   {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de   |  smurf@smurf.noris.de

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