Andrew Stribblehill <a.d.stribblehill@durham.ac.uk> writes: > Should I apply the same standards of rigour to these packages that I > do for my own sponsees' packages, namely, perfection ;)? Yes. > It doesn't seem like my place to step on sponsors' toes. It is. You check the skills of the Applicant. If there are errors in the package you ask the Applicant to fix it. Then look how fast/good he is in that and decide what to do next. > Maybe there's a solution I'm overlooking but neither of my > alternatives look reasonable. My solution is to ask for a package built without debhelper (every DD should be able to do it). Either a new package or a rebuilt of the existing one. And then check if everything is there (that includes a md5sums, mostly forgotten :) ). Ok, this is if the package is too easy or if he just adopted it, but hey, only two Applicants until now with enough complicated or enough (count) (mostly error-free) packages until now. (if i remember that right). <advertising> http://goliathbbs.dnsalias.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/nm_templates/ </advertising> :) -- begin OjE-ist-scheisse.txt bye, Joerg Encrypted Mail preferred! Registered Linux User #97793 @ http://counter.li.org end
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