Uploading Forks of Ubuntu Packages to Extras

[Bhavani Shankar R]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> 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

Again the answer is No. It was purely accidental as I misread and
targeted the upload to extras. See [1]

But as I said the version mismatch was purely accidental.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/app-review-board/2012-November/002569.html

Regards,
-- 
Bhavani Shankar
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