Hello, On Sun 18 Oct 2020 at 08:25am +08, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> X-Debbugs-Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukher...@gmail.com> > Package: ftp.debian.org > > When reading e.g., > https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/getmail6_6.7-1.html > the user sees > Debian NEW package overview for getmail6 > > Therefore the user assumes it is a new debian package. > > However it is not yet a new debian package. Yes it may be a > debian-formated package, but it is not yet on Debian as seen in > https://packages.debian.org/ . > > So call them something different. This terminology is baked in all over the place and it would be impractical to change it. We could, however, add a note to those HTML pages saying that the package is not yet available. Perhaps just the text that gets sent to uploaders when their package lands in NEW. Patches welcome, I think. -- Sean Whitton
