[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] any news/reply regarding ZFS in NEW?

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi!

On 02/28/2014 06:23 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> 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

We are talking about packages in NEW, those haven't usually been
in the archives before. The case you are describing can only occur
if an existing package is stuck in NEW because of new binary components,
for example.

> - having old and new versions eases to see what has changed (debdiff)
>   instead of starting all over or digging out previous version

Not if there isn't any old version in the archives.

> - shows active interest of original maintainers

I don't understand this argument.

Again, what I am saying is that if you upload something into NEW and
you realized you messed something up or the package has been in the
queue for quite some time now without any of the FTP masters having
looked at the package yet and the maintainer has changed the packaging
a lot in the meantime, I think it's the proper approach to ask the
FTP team to mark the package as REJECT and upload a current version.

This way the FTP team doesn't waste their time on reviewing a package
which is going to be replaced very soon anyway. Especially when the
packaging was considerably changed in the mean time.

Who tells you that the maintainers didn't make any mistake in their
new package version that would normally have triggered a REJECT
by the FTP team, but the maintainers get to upload it into the
archives anyway because there is already a version in unstable
that has been accepted?

Honestly, I think packages should automatically be removed from
NEW after a certain grace period. This shouldn't be regarded as
a REJECT for the package in general, but simply that no one has
managed so far to review the package and it "fell out" of the
queue. Helps keeping the packages in NEW "fresh" in my opinion.

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

I don't see how this would be of any advantage.

Adrian

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