Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:28:57AM -0800, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >I'm certainly not suggesting that they be rejected out of hand, and
> >accepting them isn't the correct decision either. Currently, though,
> >it's impossible to tell the difference between "This package is awkward"
> >and "This package is being ignored". Making the distinction explicit
> >causes little harm.
>
> There are various scales of "awkward", ranging from "we might get sued
> if we accept this, and we've no idea if we'd even have the law on our
> side" to "gag, that's one long copyright file, I might read that after
> breakfast instead". None of the packages are being ignored though.
The uploader of the package is mostly being ignored though.
> It's hard to take this sort of discussion as anything but an attack on
> ftpmaster, since there are plenty of teams in Debian that're even less
> transparent and effective than us. But given how these sorts of
But they are less a hindrance to the daily work of maintainers, and can thus
more easily be avoided/worked around/whatever.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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