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Re: How long to wait between RFA and QA upload?



On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 09:10:29AM +0800, gustavo panizzo (gfa) wrote:
> Recently I NMU'ed tsocks, as the shape of the package wasn't good [1]
> in the RFS email I said that I'd try to get the package orphaned so I can do a proper QA upload.
> 
> The maintainer orphaned the package 2 days ago, #842555.
> 
> I don't want to adopt the package, but I do use it so I want to see it
> in good shape, how long should I wait for others that may adopt the
> package before I do a QA upload?.

One second, it's how long it takes to read whether the WNPP bug says "RFA"
or "O" -- the former doesn't make the package orphaned yet.

> I was going to send a notice regarding my QA upload to the O bug but I
> think it may discourage people from adopting the package.

Any problem you fix is one problem less for the adopter.

> The only guidance I found is 2 weeks,
> https://qa.debian.org/orphaned.html

That's for an empty upload just to set the Maintainer: field, something that
sounds like a waste of your time, buildd cycles and mirror bandwidth. 

Orphaned packages are up for grabs the moment the O is filed.


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