On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> Hakan Tandogan wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > At the beginning of this whole contrib thing, Chmouel had a script that
> > automatically builds PGP signed src-RPMs that were uploaded into
> > ftp://ftp.linux-mandrake.com/incoming. Is this thing still working or is Lenny
> > manually picking files from incoming and selectively building them ?
>
> Right, i am looking at them and select them.
> We need to do this to check problem with contribs SRPMS. We prefer
> rebuilt and test them manually than include a trojan horse in the
> distro...
Hmmm.... I thought the point of PGP-signing them was that you could
save the manual selection process. What gives me a somewhat strange feeling is
that I've lost the immediate response, not knowing whether my SRPMs were
broken or my work wasn't been considered 'worthy enough' to get into the
contrib. I must confess that this takes the feeling of actually contributing
something to mandrake out of the process, leaving it somewhat empty :-(
Anyway, now that you explained your new policy, I'll stay tuned and
look for my SDL-*-RPMs on the changelog list ;-)
> > Curious,
>
> You think ?
I meant that I'm curious as to what the cause is, but announcing the
whole contrib bussines as semi-automatic (and requiring the contributors to
submit PGP keys) and then changing that policy without so much as a word (at
least Chmouel should have a complete list of the pgp keys, he requested them at
the beginning) feels "curious", as well.
'Night,
Hakan
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