Re: Updated proposal for improving the FTP NEW process

[Steve Robbins <steve@sumost.ca>]

My preferred algorithm is dead simple : if the source package is the same, it is not NEW.

Sorry for the top -post.  My mobile device client is deficient.

On March 6, 2018 11:34:29 AM CST, Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> wrote:

Hi Steve

Please don't top-post and fix the length of your lines.

On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 10:22:22AM -0600, Steve Robbins wrote:
 Or: change the mechanism to avoid a trip through NEW for simple cases that Chris outlined: new binary or soname bump.  Reserve NEW for truly new things.

Can you describe an algorithm that can destinguish between an soname
change and some other change?

Bastian

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