Re: On building everything from source.
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Charles Plessy wrote:
> I would welcome clearer rules to decide what is strictly required to be built
> from source. In particular, I would welcome something like "The maintainer
> decides, and can be overruled by the Technical Comittee if needed". What
> follows is not intended as a gratuitous rant but is my experience of a
> packager: the long delays at the NEW queue, the variability of the decisions
> (which depend on who reviews the package), the unpredictability of when a
> source package goes to NEW (that is, when the list of binary packages changes),
> and the impossibility of using our archive as a guide of what is acceptable
> (since it contains things that would not be accepted anymore) are making it
> too difficult to support packages over years.
If you have a NEW queue processing speed/style itch then scratch it.
The ftp team always seems in need and ready to welcome NEW volunteers.
Best wishes,
Mike
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