[Pkg-javascript-devel] alioth is down: what to do with those 119 packages ?

[Pirate Praveen]

On Friday 01 June 2018 01:19 PM, Paolo Greppi wrote:
> Weren't packages supposed to be lintian-clean before uploading for the 1st
> time ?
> Those 119 are not because they get W vcs-deprecated-in-debian-infrastructure.
> And that's the FORMAL issue.

It was lintian clean when it was uploaded.

> But the real issue is that neither the ITP owner nor the team have been able
> to fix this simple issue, in all those months.
> 
> For the new contributors, the question is whether they are "able and interested
> in not only releasing packages but also in maintaining them":
> https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-javascript-devel/2017-January/017236.html
> For the team, the question is whether we have the resources to make all those
> NMUs and sponsored uploads.

There is no need to NMU team maintained packages.

> If we are not sure about these things, it's better to be realistic and not dump
> on ftp-master the load of rejecting them.
> Let's rather ask for rejection: we'll gain in credibility !

Because most of them are required for packages like npm, gitlab, ava etc
and I'm still interested in them.


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