asterisk-perl situtation

[Faidon Liambotis]

Julien BLACHE wrote:
> asterisk-perl had no license attached to it until very recently,
> that's why it *couldn't* be uploaded to Debian.
I was not aware of that, thanks.

> Moreover, please refrain from uploading everything that's in the
> pkg-voip repo to unstable if it's not in a good enough shape. That's
> what experimental is for.
> 
> If a package is uploaded to unstable which is not of release quality,
> please block it from going to testing with a dummy RC bug.
> 
> "let's upload everything to unstable and let the users sort it out" is
> not a good policy, and certainly does not focus on quality.
I never suggested something like that; I specifically mentioned "decent
shape" and my recent commits show that I'm not suggesting or promoting
low-quality packages.

Even if I wanted to that, the ftp-masters would reject any such
attempts, they're doing some quality check nowdays afaik.

However, I don't see the point of uploading new packages to experimental
instead of unstable. It's note like we're maintaining packages that are
system-critical.

My point was that it is a shame to see packages rot for years in the
repository without being uploaded to Debian.

As you probably saw, I'm carefully checking each of them and asking for
objections in the mailing list while fixing the bugs before the upload
(see e.g. asterisk-addons).
If you are aware of any low-quality packages in our repository that need
some love, feel free to mail the list and I'll do my best to fix them.

Regards,
Faidon