Uploading Forks of Ubuntu Packages to Extras

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday, December 29, 2012 02:55:51 PM Bhavani Shankar R 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.

But putting it in extras was intentional?

Scott K