Re: NEW handling ...
Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> writes:
> On 10234 March 1977, Thomas Bushnell wrote:
> 
> > It appears that the following are all in NEW because they involve
> > such upgrades:  
> >   clanlib0.7
> 
> At least this one looks like a hijack, not coordinated with the
> maintainer of clanlib. Atm I know of only one mail in a bugreport.
> 
> On the other side he (clanlib maintainer)  maybe too busy for his
> packages, but still it doesnt feel good.
Right; I'm not saying that we don't need ftpmaster review.  (I
disagree with the claim that we should automate these.)  I was just
pointing that there are a lot more than just one or two packages in
NEW which are soname upgrades; it's a pretty common thing.
Thomas
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