Bug#686447: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] any news/reply regarding ZFS in NEW?

[Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@debian.org>]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> On 02/28/2014 05:37 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
> > I advise against this. The upload is to experimental, is OK if the 
> > package has RC bugs.

> Why? If the maintainer has made some changes in the meantime while the
> package has been waiting in NEW and the FTP team hadn't yet the
> possibility to look at the package, why waste their time to review a
> package which is going to be redone anyway?

I am not an ftp-master but if I were one (and as a mentor for quite a
few projects) I would have preferred to have re-uploads because

- ftp masters already looked at some past version
- having old and new versions eases to see what has changed (debdiff)
  instead of starting all over or digging out previous version
- shows active interest of original maintainers

for original uploader benefit is that package doesn't loose its order in
the NEW (IIRC).

overall -- I am not sure what could be a benefit of REJECT+REUPLOAD

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