[Debian-salsa-ci] Can Salsa CI help decrease the number of rejects in NEW?

[Andrew McMillan]

For sure.  I certainly run 'lrc -s' on packages coming through the new
queue.

I don't auto-reject, for a variety of reasons, but it would be helpful
if there were fewer of that sort of thing over time, and I believe it
can be a reliable check if it becomes the norm.

Thanks,
Andrew.

On Wed, 2026-02-18 at 11:11 +0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Hi DFSG Team,
> 
> Would you like to collaborate on having better copyright related
> checks in Salsa CI?
> 
> In Salsa CI we have now integration with lrc to automate license
> checking, and we could extend it to do even more checking, for which
> I
> filed
> https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/-/issues/478 for
> tracking.
> 
> I think Salsa CI could help the NEW queue processing if it increases
> the quality of the submissions and decreases the number of rejects.
> In
> Debian we also don't review any copyright for packages *already* in
> the archive, so having copyright related checks in CI could help
> elevate the overall archive copyright situation.
> 
> Please let me know if this sounds useful and if it is worth investing
> more time in this idea.
> 
> - Otto

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