Uploading Forks of Ubuntu Packages to Extras

[Scott Kitterman]

The existence of 
http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_2.5.11ubuntu12.10.1.dsc 
was recently mentioned #ubuntu-devel.  This seems to be in direct 
contradiction of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppReviewBoard/Review/Guidelines - in 
particular "Apps should not be forks or updates of existing applications in 
the Ubuntu archive (main/universe/etc). ".  

Who was this discussed with outside the ARB before it was uploaded?   As it 
stands, lintian will be upgraded to this version in any quantal system where 
extras has not been disabled, so it has potential to affect developers that 
have no relation to extras or the ARB.

Scott K