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Re: src:wpa overlap in Debian LTS?\



On Sat, 11 Aug 2018, Brian May wrote:
> Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > It would not be correct that generating a DLA would add an entry to
> > dla-needed.txt; quite the opposite as releasing a DLA ipso-facto
> > implies that the work has been completed and thus nothing is needed
> > anymore.
> 
> Maybe gen-DLA could check and warn if there is no dla-needed.txt entry?

+1

> If you want to get more paranoid, it could somehow check that the person
> matches too.

That would be hard to get right. But the script could definitely print the
name of the person who claimed the package and show it to the user.

Someone should implement all this.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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