Re: Q to all candidates: NEW queue
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 02:42:34PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Roberto C. Sánchez (2020-03-26 14:28:47)
> > 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.
>
> Or you might be describing a procedure that has since been improved.
>
> When sharing example cases, it helps if you also mention how long ago it
> happened (I sometimes get surprised how much time has passed when
> checking such facts).
>
Good point. The most recent experience I had with this was a package I
uploaded in February 2019. The FTP team rejection came on 4th January
2020, my requests for additional clarification were made within 24 hours
of the rejection, but have not yet been replied to by the FTP team.
One additional point which I initially omitted and which may (or may
not) have bearing on the situation is that the package in question
targeted experimental rather than unstable.
> For future cases, I suggest to always file an ITP bugreport before
> pushing a new package, to help encourage ftp team to use that bugreport
> to store responses/remarks from them - and when that happens we can in
> future reference the bugreport when sharing example cases :-)
>
I have filed an ITP for every new package I have ever uploaded. I have
never seen the FTP team make comments in the ITP bug whenever there has
been an issue that had to be resolved, and that remains the case for my
most recent experience.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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