Christoph Egger wrote: > Christoph Egger <christoph@christoph-egger.org> writes: > > Read Policy 5.1 again > > Well right, that's devref, clicked on the wrong link but still But still nothing. ITP is more often than not a pointless bureaucracy. The turnaround time for packaging the average package is less than the turnaround time in getting back a ITP bug number. Chances are very high that ITP filing has wasted more time than it's ever saved in duplicated work. It's also caused much stalling of legitimate work. I don't completly boycott filing ITP bugs. I've filed at least three this decade; two for packages I could not immediatly upload due to a copyright issue, and one for a package that had an independent debianization not in the archive. Applying a little common sense to filing ITP bugs will get you a long way toward realizing any possible benefits. The appropriate thing to do when confronted with a months-old ITP for a package with the same content or name as your package is almost certianly to ignore old "intent" and get on with it. -- see shy jo
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