Re: Lottery NEW queue (Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 09:38:01PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> For me, the copyright check is just a bad excuse. People upload
> non-distributable stuff everywhere and it seems the world continue to go
> round. What amount of non-distributable packages is stopped by the NEW
> queue?
>
> I think we should forego the NEW queue. If people want to check
> packages, they can do it once they are in unstable with regular bugs.
Without the NEW queue, there would be no point at which packaging receives
any sort of review. I'd prefer Debian to deliver at least some level of
quality.
Otherwise, we'd fall to the level of NPM. And there's ample examples what
that would mean.
> Current checks are partly done by Lintian and I suppose people could
> watch new Lintian warnings and detect bad packages quickly.
Lintian is just a dumb machine that can ease human reviews but not replace
them.
> This could be done when src is not NEW as a test.
I've managed to trample upon someone else's package just yesterday -- and it
escaped automated checks because a binary of that name already existed in
the archive, just not on any arch which I test.
Meow!
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