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Re: Please ignore the tslib upload



On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:06, Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org> wrote:
> * mentors.debian.net is the default dput host in his/her machine
> * Whoever uploaded the "~ubuntu" package to mentors forgot to type
> "revu", i. e. he/she typed "dput tslib_XXXXXX.changes" instead of
> "dput revu tslib_XXXXXXX.changes"
>
> Disallowing "~ubuntu" uploads will not prevent this from happening
> again. Making the host parameter in dput mandatory will. I. e. instead
> of:
>
> dput [options] [host] package.changes ...
>
> let's have:
>
> dput [options] host package.changes ...
>
> ("host" is now mandatory)

Default host for dput is ftp-master.debian.org, which is (for DDs) the
best choice, and anyone can change their own config file to use their
preferred host.

Moreover, changing the behavior of a tool to prevent errors may not be
the best way to fix it.

Kindly,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi


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