Uploading Forks of Ubuntu Packages to Extras

[Bhavani Shankar R]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Bhavani Shankar R <bhavi at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>
> Version mismatch happened by accident.
>
> Regards,
>

And I'll take care to double check the versioning again hereafter.

I apologize again that this was purely accidental.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused

Regards,


-- 
Bhavani Shankar
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