On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 02:23:55AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 13 July 2007 01:48, Frans Pop wrote: > > I was quite surprised to see the two new udebs from your source package > > gnu-fdisk appear. Mainly because there has not been any discussion by > > Robert about adding them with the rest of the D-I team and the D-I > > release managers in particular. > > Let me make this clear once and for all: there should be NO requests filed > for adding new udebs to existing Debian packages without discussing it > first on the debian-boot mailing list (which also means that only asking > on IRC is not enough). > > This also goes for udebs that are not intended to be used in Debian > Installer itself, but are e.g. for debian-edu or live CD or similar. > > The only exception is if a D-I porter needs an *architecture specific* > udeb, but even then at least announcing it on the list is very much > appreciated. > > The main reasons for this are: > - the size of installation images should not be increased without > discussion > - every new udeb may need to be excluded in debian-cd > - migration for all udebs needs to be consciously managed (which mostly > falls to the D-I release manager) > - because of the previous point, having a udeb is not always enjoyable > for maintainers of regular packages because their packages may get > blocked from transitioning to testing; we should therefore not have > unused or trivial udebs > > Remember, and this was recently affirmed by the Technical Committee, that > the debian-installer section of the repository is "owned" by the D-I > team. > > Adding new udebs is a fairly major change. It seems only reasonable that > people inform/consult their colleagues in the team before requesting > them. > > We are of course work willing to work with anybody who wants to extend the > installer (and history shows that we do), but only if it is done in the > proper spirit of collaboration, and springing new udebs on the team is > _not_ a good example of proper collaboration.
Ok, but please let's not make a big fuss of this. The udebs were just added to the archive, not to D-I. And I requested it out of ignorance, not malice (and Julien accepted my request in the same situation). -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
