No dia 16 de Novembro de 2010 17:00, Philip Brown <[email protected]> escreveu: > On 11/16/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <[email protected]> wrote: >> No dia 16 de Novembro de 2010 14:19, Sebastian Kayser >> <[email protected]> escreveu: >>> * Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I will also mention, given that Maciej gave the debian sharedlibs >>>> policy (section 8.1) as a reference, if we abided by the WHOLE text of >>>> that section. Again, my further notes on that, are at the bottom of >>>> the wiki page. >>> >>> When it comes to policy vs "when seen beneficial" in this case, I regard >>> it as helpful to have as few exceptions and as much of a standard as >>> possible. >> >> There's also the question of who is the subject to see the benefit. > > "The benefit " is supposed to be for the user, not the maintainer OR > the release manager. :)
How does the release manager know what's the best for the user? It's not a rhetorical question. I'm interested to know in the process. > As far as who determines it before the package is released: > by definition, the person with the most authority to make that > decision, is the release manager. > >> Is it the maintainer or the release manager? What if the two >> disagree? > > Ideally, "the maintainer" should respect the release manager's > experience in the matter. > But there's always recourse to the board. I guess there's also the question of the reasons for rejecting a package. The release manager, despite having more power, can't reject a package because, let's say, he doesn't like the maintainer. There has to be a valid reason. I hope you agree. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
