Re: dehs will stop
Hmm. I quite like the dehs idea. Possibly there are no well-defined
goals so far, but this is an area Debian as a whole could improve in.
Here are some thoughts.
1. Assert that every .orig.tar.gz which does not extract to
foo_ver.orig/ is identical to the one provided by upstream.
2. Keep statistics on the turn-around time for packages.
3. Alert maintainers when new releases become available.
Of these, only 3 is/was implemented. I would find 3 useful, and I
expect many others would too.
2 is useful for finding MIA maintainers or de-facto orphaned packages.
If, for example, a new upstream release is available, but is not
packaged for Sarge, then that package should be manually investigated.
Someone acting on behalf of -qa should go and make sure that its still
useful and properly integrated.
1 is a safety measure. It prevents people from using a nonoriginal
.orig, for example, to plant a trojan. It also acts as a check; of
course, every .orig should be original.
Justin
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