On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 06:44:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 06:43:52PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > 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... > > well, as if they would reply me. Yes, your bridges do appear to be very charcoaled in that direction. > > 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. > > But they get a full $DELAY number of days to block it if it is needed. And if a weird confluence of events happens to result in a bodgy package going through anyway? > > > Now, again, this is probably something that can get automated > > > > Sure. Some of it. > > computers are about automating tasks so humans don't need to handle them. you > only have to be clever enough to tell them to do it and they will do it. > > So, you are either overworked or clever, but not both :) Bollocks. It's the clever people who usually end up overworked, because they can do more "critical" things with their time. Perhaps you could demonstrate your cleverness by providing ftpmasters with a script to automatically check that the debian/copyright file on a package is reasonably correct. Shouldn't be too hard for a clever fellow such as yourself. - Matt
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