Hi all, Andreas Tille, on 2024-02-28: > Am Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 04:08:51PM +0100 schrieb Timo Röhling: > > I guess the motivation behind the weak collaboration model is that some > > packages have hidden "gotchas", which a casual team uploader might not know. > > For instance, pygit2 is one of multiple libgit2 language bindings which all > > need to be upgraded in lock-step when a new upstream version is released. > > You are making an important point here.
Thanks Timo for raising this point, it is important indeed. > > Instead of restricting collaboration, we could let policy encourage > > maintainers to state such constraints in debian/README.DPT and ask team > > members to check that file before they team-upload. > > I think this is a very good idea. In case MR[1] will be accepted this > should be added to the policy as well. I'm not sure whether the > "Maintainership" paragraph is the best place to add this. I wonder if > you (or someone with the same doubts) might want to suggest another MR > to add this debian/README.DPT feature. Policy changes aside, I think it could be useful for the routine-update command to stop when such file is hit, in order to raise the importance that the package has quirks, and should not be casually updated without involved scrutiny. I wonder whether this can be generalized, like if d/README.source file is present? (Although the latter use is codified[2] and I'm not confident it is 100% suitable for such purpose: I see many such files on my radar which do not necessarily hint for quirks.) Of course this could be overred with a --readme-reviewed flag once ready to finalize the package with automation for instance. > [1] > https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/python-modules/-/merge_requests/20 [2]: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#source-package-handling-debian-readme-source Have a nice day, :) -- .''`. Étienne Mollier <emoll...@debian.org> : :' : pgp: 8f91 b227 c7d6 f2b1 948c 8236 793c f67e 8f0d 11da `. `' sent from /dev/pts/1, please excuse my verbosity `- on air: Dream the Electric Sleep - Utopic
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