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Re: new maintainers

On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Peter Tobias wrote:

> In addition to that we should IMHO split our normal stable and
> unstable directories in two parts (two new subdirectories). The
> first part (maybe all required/standard packages) is a small base
> unix system (similar to the FreeBSD base section) and the second
> part contains all the other packages. The first part of the
> distribution has to tested much more than the second part. And
> only trusted maintainers should be allowed to maintain packages
> in the first (core) part. New maintainer have to maintain packages
> in the second part first.

I disagree for 2 reasons (I don't disagree on the problem, I disagree on 
the proposed fix):

a) The current situation is already pretty much the one you want to 
achieve, that is the "core" distribution has been separed in the "base" 
directory. Also looking at who maintains the packages there, all are 
"Debian old-timers" (Ok, me excepted ;)
W.r.t. the testing issue this is on the way. Subscribe to 
<debian-qa@lists.debian.org> if you're interested.

b) I don't like the idea to have 1st rank maintainers and second rank 
maintainers. (Revolutions often happen for less than this ;).

	Cordialement,

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