Archive section in debian/control (was Re: Lintian based autorejects)
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 15:55 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Seems to me like there's no point in asking the ftpmasters to come up with the source package section name because the package author didn't notice and set one before the first upload. Although I do agree that if we're going to make this a mandatory requirement for packages, Policy needs to be modified accordingly. Don't the ftpmasters make their own independent judgement on the section field anyway? I don't see how it helps to require the Section field be changed to /some/ other value when there's no guarantee that the new value is valid or correct. It's just one more thing to cause a round-trip for the maintainer. (N.B.: this check would fail even in the case of a package with a pre-existing section override in the archive. What's the sense of that? Let the maintainer get the nag mail after the fact telling them to reconcile the section, instead.) What's the point of having the maintainer specify it in the first place? -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Archive section in debian/control (was Re: Lintian based autorejects)
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 10:12:11PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: (N.B.: this check would fail even in the case of a package with a pre-existing section override in the archive. What's the sense of that? Let the maintainer get the nag mail after the fact telling them to reconcile the section, instead.) What's the point of having the maintainer specify it in the first place? - it provides a hint to the ftp team about the section it might belong in - it gives us a way to see when the ftp team and the maintainer disagree about the correct section (reminder mails to the maintainer on override mismatch) - it gives users useful information when inspecting the .deb manually - it gives sensible default values for the Packages file when importing into some package archive other than the official Debian archive All are valuable; but none are reasons to reject packages, IMHO. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
