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Re: AM Report For Robin Verduijn



On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 04:20:41PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Mark Brown wrote:

> > We probably ought to make allowances for people learning stuff during
> > the process.  In a way I'd rather have someone not know about Lintain

> But when he doesn't know about lintian that means he hasn't even read the
> "Debian New Maintainers' Guide" [1]. I think we should expect from a new
> member of Debian who wants to maintain packages that he has at least read
> the (good) documentation for beginners, shouldn't we?

Or didn't read all of it, read it and then forgot about the bit with
lintian while actually making the package build or whatever.  It's
certainly not a good thing but I think it's a little extreme to reject
things out of hand based on it.

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