On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:32:03PM -0500, Brian Pepple wrote:
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 23:53 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Anybody can already raise his concerns about a compat package, why more
> procedures and such a veto power for a particular packager?
For the reasons spelled out in the proposal: 'The reasoning for the
latter is that even if the primary maintainer is not maintaining the
compatibility package, chances are that they will have to be involved in
the maintenance due to passing along security problems, helping out with
things and redirecting misfiled bugs.'
If a particular maintainer has those concerns he can raise them without
having this veto power. This makes an unneeded assymetry between a
primary maintainer and somebody who would like to do a compat package.
There is no reason why a primary maintainer would be smarter than
somebody wanting a compat package.
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Pat