Re: Q to all candidates: NEW queue
On 27/03/20 at 09:23 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Friday, March 27, 2020 8:40:11 AM EDT Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > On 27/03/20 at 12:23 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > > At least during my many years of Ubuntu archive administration I've
> > > actually seen quite a lot of packages which contained non-distributable
> > > files, had hilariously broken maintainer scripts (which could then also
> > > damage *other* software on your system), and the like. For these an
> > > initial NEW review was quite important.
> > >
> > > That proposal is assuming that the "package gets reviewed, a bug is filed"
> > > step actually happens timely, but that is precisely the problem -- with
> > > such a workflow we would essentially stop having NEW review and just hope
> > > that someone catches bad packages before they get released. So IMHO this
> > > is not a solution, and only causes buggy packages to creep into unstable.
> >
> > So in my original mail, I proposed that new packages would get
> > immediately accepted into unstable, but would still require a review
> > before migrating to testing. I believe that it's an interesting compromise,
> > because:
> > - while in unstable, they would get tested by our regular QA tools, that
> > are likely to find some of the issues ftpmasters would have found
> > - it makes it possible for the maintainer to get early feedback from
> > users, and to continue working on packaging reverse dependencies.
> > - it's unstable, so even if it's severely broken, it's probably not a
> > big deal. We have lots of packages in unstable that have been severely
> > broken for years anyway.
> > - it protects 'testing' (and our stable releases) from unreviewed
> > packages.
> >
> > Of course this only works if Debian doesn't get sued for copyright
> > infringement too often. I wonder if that would be a problem (it's
> > probably less likely to be a problem for packages in 'main' than for
> > packages in 'non-free').
> >
> > Lucas
>
> What's "too often"?
I don't know. Has it happened in the past? How frequently does ftpmaster
run into things that would/could trigger a lawsuit?
Lucas
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