RE: Should I give up?
FYI a discussion on this with the original poster of this thread devolved into some swearing on their part off-list and the other reason they're discouraged is because it was 'rejected' due to a missing d/copyright clause. Which according to them is "wrong" and "they should have held and waited for an updated package" which points at the misunderstanding of archive administration behind the scenes.
Ultimately, the problem is two-fold: (1) they didn't see the initial rejection email and (2) were waiting months *before* they saw it was rejected, which doesn't mean in my interpretation the rejection and the time they saw the rejection was in fact the same "months after upload".
Thomas
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2022 12:28
To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Should I give up?
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 02:32:43PM +0000, Thomas Ward wrote:
> When there's a rejected package there should be a rejection reason.
> That's where you should start. Don't be discouraged, I've had my
> packages rejected before (note: I'm not a mentor / DD, but I have been
> through this process before), it hasn't stopped me from contributing
> anywhere yet. Usually, when there's a rejection, there's a *reason*
> for it and that reason should be documented somewhere and sent to you
> via email - I would look for those rejection emails and see what the
> reasoning was for the rejection.
That's not the stated reason though:
> the thought of having to wait several months again to see if
> everything is acceptable is really discouraging
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WBR, wRAR
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