Uploading Forks of Ubuntu Packages to Extras

[Bhavani Shankar R]

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,



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Bhavani Shankar
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