Ben Finney wrote:
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:Unless you are in the ftpteam group, you won't be able to access the packages in NEW:For the record, this does of course make sense. A big part of the point to the NEW queue is to check whether it's legal for the Debian project to redistribute these works; making them publicly available ifrom official Debian project servers before those checks would undermine that.
But IIRC now the new queue accept only signed packages (who was not the case at the beginning), so IMHO we could relax some rules. Anyway packages receive a first review from DD before to sign (and DD was checked about license understanding). With normal updates, we could (I hope only theoretically) add illegal files, along other updates. Some team maintained package are "uploaded" in alioth (an official machine) NEWS is something different but: - for existing sources, new binaries: IMHO it is the same as updating (but the usual ftpmaster works, like overrides, etc.), so could be public. - for other new packages: I think it is enough that the packages are signed by DD, the package are not mirrored and "hidden" (but we can change hostname/directory-name, so that everyone see that these package are not (yet) official product of Debian. ciao cate PS: ooops: I forgot DMs: there is no license and ID checks for them, so the my theory is broken.