Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#854448: octave-stk: Yaml syntax error in debian/upstream/metadata

[Oliver Heimlich <oheim@posteo.de>]

Am 7. Februar 2017 22:22:17 MEZ schrieb "Rafael Laboissière" <rafael@debian.org>:
>Hi Andrea,
>
>(Cc'ing to the DOG, hope you do not mind)
>
>* Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> [2017-02-07 20:18]:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 06:39:08PM +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
>>>> PS: If ACLs would have been set I would have commited the attached
>>>>   patch right to Git.
>>>
>>> What should you do, exactly?
>>
>> We just had a discussion on Debian Science list.  It did not worked 
>> out as expected and may be you can learn more from the whole thread 
>> but may be that
>>
>>    https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2017/01/msg00210.html
>>
>> is the most informative part.  I'm not sure whether this worked out 
>> in the end - may be pinging formorer for manual intervention is 
>> neede in any case.
>
>I have no strong feelings about opening our repositories to the DDs. 
>What do the other members of the DOG think?
>
>Rafael
>

I think that it will rarely be needed, but have no objections. DDs certainly know what they do and it will save time if they push themselves.

Oliver