On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:40:09AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:25:03AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > > I'd like to congratulate our ftp-master team on their ability to timely > > process packages progressing through the NEW queue. > > > > <http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html> [1] > > > > I think you are an excellent example of people who are too busy for Debian. > > ... > > In my entire involvement with Debian from the development side, I've never > seen the NEW queue being processed as quickly as it is these days. It used to > be irritating to me -- it isn't today. > > I don't know the details of the three longest-running packages, but I assume you > asked an ftpmaster about those? It's a long story, I asked about it in the thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/08/msg01510.html but got no final answer It *seems* [1] that ftp-master has its issues about software that *encodes* mpeg but not about software that decodes it. Either way it makes no sense to have a package in the queue for a year when the software (i.e. the source code) that makes it be problematic is readily available in other packages and that software can be used for both encoding and decoding [2] and there's no RC bug asking for their removal from the archive. Also, patent issues are not listed under the "serious violations" at http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html So, who knows. Not that xvidcap is critical for me, but it is somewhat annoying to have it sitting there for no (declared) reason. Javier [1] Look at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/08/msg01562.html although Joerg says he is not speaking for the team [2] ffmpeg, package description: multimedia player, server and *encoder*
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