Uploading Forks of Ubuntu Packages to Extras

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday, December 28, 2012 06:44:37 PM Stéphane Graber 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.

And for the record, this upload broke lintian4python, so it wasn't without 
affect on the main archive.

Scott K