On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 12:52:48PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > Because: > > * Discussions about the RC bugs can be more effectively dealt with > using our existing discussion mechanisms, including primarily the > Debian BTS. Compared to REJECT mails: > - Discussions in the BTS are more transparent > - Discussions in the BTS are better organised > - Discussions in the BTS can have wider participation > - Discussions in the BTS are better archived > - Discussions in the BTS have better metadata > > * Publishing a work-in-progress in the Debian archive enables more > people to more easily help improve and fix it. > > * Once a package is accepted metadata about it, and parts of it, are > automatically published by a variety of Debian services, making it > much easier to work with - for example, one can see who the > maintainer is and what its issues are. > > * ftpmasters are already far too overloaded looking for problems like > unredistributability, dfsg-nonfreeness, malformed packages, > breakages of the archive, etc. thanks! nice summary. > * It is not ftpmasters' role to determine whether a package is > RC-buggy; that task is for the Release Team. point taken as well. still I think we should only stuff in unstable which is suited for testing. So while you have convinced me that it's good to have those packages in Debian I now think that experimental would be a fine place for those, but not unstable. -- cheers, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org PGP fingerprint: B8BF 5413 7B09 D35C F026 FE9D 091A B856 069A AA1C
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