Re: Please allow deliciousapi 1.5.0 into sid/lenny
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:12, Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 05:36:00PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>> > please go ahead with the upload to unstable and please follow-up to this
>> > mail afterwards.
>> Thanks Philipp! deliciousapi/1.5.1-1 has just been uploaded.
>
> After re-reviewing the entire package (not just the debdiff I reviewed
> before) I tend to decline this request and will request the removal of
> it from testing.
>
> Rationale: It relies on screen scraping. This is the same case for
> releaseforge. So both packages are more similar than I initially
> thought. It has been observed that remote websites change. I hold
> the assertion that packages relying on websites not changing at all
> in structure may not be included in a stable release as they might
> get broken too easily.
>
> If there was actually an API involved all would have been fine, but
> like this it should be included in volatile or backports instead.
Ok, that's your call. Please go ahead and remove it from testing.
Cheers,
Sandro
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