build-from-branch into the primary archive

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Sat Feb 19 15:09:54 UTC 2011


On Saturday, February 19, 2011 08:47:04 am Martin Pitt wrote:
> Scott Kitterman [2011-02-17  6:51 -0500]:
> > 1. From the LEP: Disabling dput uploads is not a nice to have.
> 
> While we shouldn't disable it in general, ever (see my other reply),
> I'd highly welcome disabling dput on a per-package basis. I waste a
> lot of time cleaning up behind people who just upload one of "my"
> packages without committing their changes to bzr.
> 
Except, as you know, they aren't yours.  I don't think we want to change the 
Ubuntu philosophy on package maintainers.  Perhaps it would be possible to 
streamline the fixup process with additional automation so it wouldn't be a 
problem for you?

Scott K



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