On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:24:39 +0100 Thibaut Paumard <paumard@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Dear mentors, > > A package of mine has been stuck in NEW for 3 weeks without feedback yorick-mpeg presumably? (It's always helpful to specify the package name in queries to mentors.) > from the ftp-masters. It was uploaded with three other packages which > were eventually accepted. How verbosely did you cover any possible queries over the legality of mpeg usage in your package within debian/copyright? Various mpeg elements have patent restrictions - I would suspect that the main reason for the delay is the ftp-masters doing their job of ensuring that your package is legal for Debian to distribute. Don't expect the ftp-masters to know anything about yorick and ensure that everything remotely relevant to patent / non-free issues are verbosely and clearly described in debian/copyright. No other file is relevant here, everything must be in debian/copyright. If there are issues that you think you may have missed, upload a new Debian version with all the extra docs added to debian/copyright. It will join the NEW queue and be considered instead of the original package. > The next oldest package in NEW as been > there for only one week. Should I react now and how? No. Problematic packages in NEW can easily take 8 weeks or more. Whilst it is true that there is little to no feedback during this time, it doesn't mean that your package is being ignored. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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