On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 05:13:14PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > > Backports has now been declared "officially" supported by the project > > > as a whole. That made it the collective responsibility of all > > > Debian Developers whether or not individuals in particular like it or > > > not. > > False. > So you're saying that a move to debian.org actually does not make it > officially part of Debian (even though a lot of blogs are claiming just > that)? If that's the case then I agree that there is no collective > responsibility. That's good since it eliminates what was going to be a > significant additional burden for the security team. No, I'm saying that being "officially part of Debian" does not make it "officially supported by the project as a whole" or "the cllective responsibility of all Debian Developers". > What would be required to finally declare it "officially" supported? A > vote? That would be far preferable to having people declaring randomly on mailing lists that backports are now "our collective responsibility". -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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