Uploading Forks of Ubuntu Packages to Extras

[Scott Kitterman]

Bhavani Shankar R <bhavi at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>
>wrote:
>> On 12/28/2012 06:37 PM, 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
>>
>> I can't remember seeing any discussion about this and it's a clear
>> violation of what was approved by the Technical Board in regard to
>the
>> extras repository.
>>
>> I've removed the lintian package from the ARB PPA and that removal
>> should be propagated to the extras archive in the next hour or so.
>>
>> I'd appreciate if someone from the ARB could explain what was the
>> reasoning behind this upload so that we can make sure whatever
>problem
>> it was trying to address indeed gets addressed but without causing
>> problem with the main archive.
>>
>
>/me stepping in for the ARB here as I am directly co-ordinating with
>Niels from debian regarding the arb-lintian.
>
>
>Firstly sorry for the version mismatch that happened. The whole idea
>was to integrate arb checks in lintian of which major namespace and
>/opt requirement integrated in lintian. Will redirect any lintian
>uploads here on to the staging PPA to avoid any problems
>
>Apologies again.
>
>Regards,

Does that mean you uploaded it to extras by accident or intentionally? 

Scott K