Uploading Forks of Ubuntu Packages to Extras

[Allison Randal]

I believe this was an honest mistake. If you follow the discussion on
the ARB list, starting at:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/app-review-board/2012-November/002569.html

The intention was that the patched version of lintian (currently in
Debian experimental) would be uploaded to the
~ubuntu-app-review-contributors PPA, which does *not* get copied to the
extras archive. Instead, it was accidentally uploaded to the
~app-review-board PPA, which is automatically launched into extras. This
is a violation of ARB policy, and needs to be fixed.

So, how do we undo it?

Allison


On 12/28/2012 09:37 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> 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
>