Re: NEW processing friction
On February 7, 2022 6:00:16 PM UTC, John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
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>On Mon, Feb 07 2022, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
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>> If we can't do anything else, I suspect we can reduce project a
>> friction a lot of we only subject packages to copyright hazing when it
>> is a NEW source package, and not when there is a NEW binary package
>> caused by some usptream maintainers not being able to maintain ABI
>> backwards compatibility.
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>Yes.
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>Also, with backports. When packaging up Go packages, which require all
>their little dependencies to be independent packages, I have probably
>gone through more than 50 NEW reviews in the past few months. unstable,
>bullseye, and buster backports. This process is not yet finished for
>some packages.
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>Another related problem is with languages like Go; when a package adds a
>dependency, suddenly I can't upload new releases to unstable properly
>until all the deps have made it through NEW.
Backports is an entirely different team. Let's not mix it in with this discussion. It should be it's own thread.
Scott K
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