Hello, On Thu 22 Nov 2018 at 11:20AM GMT, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 08:37:28PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> What harm are the packages doing sitting in unstable? Distributing them >> does not have much point, but neither does removing them. > > the rather few people working on (fully and partly) automated QA have to > spend brain and cpu cycles on it Thank you to both you and Niels for the explanations. I see what you mean now. >> If someone does want to come along and fix the package, having it pass >> through NEW again is not a good use of ftpteam time. > > first, that's partly why I suggested 3 months delays/warnings for these > autoremovals. second, during this time, like for the testing > autoremovals, a simple mail to that bug could+should reset the counter > of that 3 months period again. third, ftpmasters are smart, if exactly the > same package gets reuploaded i'm pretty confident the ftpmasters > can+will detect that easily and make it go through NEW faster. I don't think this is realistic, however -- it's not likely to be the same ftpteam member who reviews the package the second time. -- Sean Whitton
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