Re: Consequences of the NEW queue's length [Was: Remove packages from NEW queue?]

[Simon Richter]

Hi,

On 11/18/21 4:08 PM, Stephan Lachnit wrote:

I guess this raises the (maybe already answered) question if the
additional license QA from NEW is for the end-product (i.e. Debian
stable) or for the servers that run the Debian infrastructure, which
of course includes experimental.

The latter.



   Simon

The license must allow Debian to redistribute the package. This is checked very thoroughly on the initial upload, and updates are expected to keep the same licensing. Whether that expectation still holds with upstreams who prefer vendor copies over using external packages is another matter, but in general these packages require more handholding anyway.

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