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Re: length of Debian copyright files



Hello,

On Wed 25 Mar 2020 at 03:43PM +00, Simon McVittie wrote:

> I think part of the problem might be this vicious cycle: the NEW queue
> is an asynchronous gatekeeper/progress blocker, which gives maintainers
> a strong incentive to get things accepted first time (because a NEW
> rejection will double the delay), which means maintainers are incentivized
> to dot every i and cross every t in the copyright file even if it isn't
> strictly necessary, which means the ftp team are given larger and more
> verbose copyright files to read, which presumably means the NEW queue
> takes longer than it otherwise could.

Yes, I think this is exactly what happens.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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