Le Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 07:13:19PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann a écrit : > The reject FAQ has been featured on d-d-announce[1], is linked from the > NEW queue page and, AFAIK, referred to in most if not all rejection > mails from Joerg.
> you could always suggest patches. Hi Thomas, This exactly exemplifies what I meant: compare to the Debian Policy: - It is a structured document, - It is packaged and can be consulted offline, - Discussion about its content follow a public procedure that takes advantage of the Bug Tracking System. Patches would improve the FAQ, but what we need is a policy that would state the requrements for a package in Debian format to be accepted in Debian and in the contrib and non-free catagories, and that would be displayed together with the other policies. It would also be good to clarify the responsabilities of each persons. Who has the legal liability? The member of the FTP master team member accepting the package, the FTP master team collectively, the FTP administrators and the package maintainer, the package maintainer alone? A lot of the weight that the members of the FTP master team have in the discussion is that it is assumed that they take risks for the communauty, that can not be shared with others. The discussion also shows that we are reaching the limits of a system. The outcome is clearly that undocumented and non-free material goes accepted through the NEW queue. Documenting the copyright of all files in a machine-readable format can definitely help to make automated tests, but as Russ reminded, the most time consuming part of making a Debian package is to document the licence of the files. (And for the specific field I focus in, I would add: deal with PDF documents that miss their LaTeX or MS Word source). I do not know if Debexpo (a replacement for mentors.debian.net that is one of the Google Summer of Code projects allocated to Debian) could help for this: if it had discussion facilities, then packages could be peer-reviewed before upload to NEW ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian-Med packaging team, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
