Re: What holds up a package in incoming?
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 02:22:33PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
> Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es> writes:
> > I was browsing incoming.debian.org and saw kernel-source-2.6.0-test6
> > has been in there 04 October. Why has it not come through yet? What
> > holds up a package like that for almost a week? Just wondering.
>
> Packages that are new to Debian need to be manually approved by the
> ftpmasters. In my experience, this generally takes about a week,
> which is consistent with what you're seeing.
... and, to clarify, the modification time of the file that you see in
incoming.debian.org is based on when it was uploaded, not when it was
approved and moved out of the NEW queue.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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