Hello Martin, On Fri 27 Mar 2020 at 12:23PM +01, 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. Indeed. > @ftpmasters, would it help to try some automation on the 80% case, and e. g. > auto-process packages if they are lintian-clean, suspicious-source is empty, > and checking for some reasonable overlap of licensecheck and grep -i '(c)' with > names appearing in debian/copyright? So that ftpmasters can concentrate on the > 20% complicated packages? > > Or are the 80% already not a problem/time sink? They're not a problem. They only get stuck for too long sometimes because the code which chooses which order to display the packages to us sometimes puts them much lower down in the queue than you'd expect them to me, for reasons I don't yet understand. -- Sean Whitton
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