Hi, On 10/24/2014 02:02 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Aigars Mahinovs <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24 October 2014 12:35, Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> wrote: > > In fact, they want to require that if P supports only A (and not > A|B) > > that the maintainers of P have to patch P to make it support B. In > the > > good old days[tm] it would be the responsibility of the people > wanting > > to use B to submit patches to make P work with B (but here I suspect > > many people demanding support for B do not even use P[1]...). > > And this is exactly why this GR is moot: it contradicts the > constitution. Even if it passes, you couldn’t force maintainers of A > (systemd) or P (GNOME, KDE, Xfce) to maintain B (systemd-shim) or fix > bugs in B.
I don't think it contradicts the constitution: we do require certain work to accept packages in Debian, like removing non-free stuff, document copyright holders and licenses, making the package build on buildds, ... However there needs to be a fairly broad consensus about these requirements and, if you change the requirements, people willing to actually do the work. Otherwise we end with this: > Eventually, bugs in B would result in RC bugs in P that the release team > would have to ignore because P is too useful. Which is why I think this GR is a bad idea... Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
