On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Dominik George wrote: > Sorry to disapoint you, but you should read *all of* DPM before passing > a package for upload to a sponsor or to mentors.
I don't think we have never expected that new maintainers read policy before creating a package. The Debian member who uploads the package is the one who is supposed to check for policy violations and other issues and ask the maintainer to correct the issues, pointing out reasons (such as particular policy sections) for fixing the issues. Of course it is appreciated if the maintainers check their packages against policy and other manual and automatic checklists but I never required it of people I was sponsoring and I don't think Debian as a whole has either. Reading policy is obviously one of the requirements to become a Debian member who can upload to the archive though. Some checklists: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html http://mentors.debian.net/intro-reviewers https://wiki.debian.org/SponsorChecklist https://wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian#Check_points_for_any_package http://debile.debian.net/ http://firewoes.debian.net/ -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6HXAwx054XLgbM_=t5e6-2obzkuw2u4mqysatfa-5g...@mail.gmail.com