On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 13:53, Max Horn wrote:
> But right now, I wanted to update my libxml2 package, and when I was
> almost about to check it in, I found out that dists/10.2 apparently
> has a very different version of libxml2, coming from
> experimental/msek.
...
> This is not acceptable! If you have to (heavily in this case) modify
> a package not owned by you, then a) either keep it to yourself alone
> or b) contact the package maintainer before putting it into even
> something semi-official as dists/10.2. So that he will know you did
> it, or so that he can hand over the package to you.
Yes. Experimental is meant to be a playground for individual packagers
to not be accountable and do new development. Things should *not* be
moved out of there without talking to the maintainer first. Since
David's dist/10.2 tree is meant to be the upcoming "official" tree,
treat it like you would stable and unstable.
Also consider that the experimental/jaguar tree was meant to be a
"holding tank" for things that we were fixing to work, but hadn't
contacted the maintainer about yet. That means that the above is
*doubly* true for anything in there, since the maintainer very likely
has had no input on the changes that went into those.
--
Ben Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick (ranger@xxxxxxxxxx)
http://defiance.dyndns.org/ / http://radio.scenespot.org/
...if humanoids eat chicken, then obviously they'd eat their own
species. Otherwise they'd just be picking on the chickens. -- Kryten
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