Re: Q to all candidates: NEW queue
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 09:49:41AM -0300, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote:
> Hi, Lucas,
>
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2020, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> >
> > What solutions do you envision about this issue? Is that just something
> > that we have to live with?
>
> The FTP Team has very recently made a call for volunteers [1], so
> perhaps they already have some plans?...
>
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2020/03/msg00003.html
>
> > Personnally, I wonder if we are being overly cautious about NEW. I
> > wonder if we could move to checking a posteriori (accept the package in
> > unstable; maybe don't let it migrate to testing until it is reviewed).
>
> Anyhow, I wrote to weigh in on this particular comment, because, as a
> Debian Maintainer, I had only submitted two packages to the NEW queue.
> On both occasions, the FTP Team found licensing issues in the packages,
> even though I thought I had done a *really* great job of reading through
> the copyright notices, (specially for the second package). So, I'm
> glad the package had to be reviewed, even though I would had been
> happier if the process had taken less time, :).
>
I too have found the FTP team review valuable. Like in your case, they
identified an issue that I had overlooked. The part I didn't like was
waiting 11 months to get that message from the FTP team and (since the
FTP team rejection message included some unclear comments) not receiving
a reply to my requests for clarification.
That said, I have never had a package rejected for reasons that would
outright keep it from entering Debian. Each package I have had rejected
could have as easily been accepted into unstable and then fixed after
the fact to address whatever the problem was. For instance, omitting a
particular file with a distinct (but compatible) license from listing in
the copyright file or some similar minor license-related matter. None
of those things seem like reasons to hold up a package entering Debian
for months to nearly a year. Though, I may be mistaken in that and
biased based on my own experience.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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