[maemo-developers] [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

[From: Graham Cobb]

On Thursday 17 April 2008 13:36:15 Marius Vollmer wrote:
> "ext Andrew Flegg" <andrew at bleb.org> writes:
> > Having said that, perhaps the MOTU-style proposal of gatekeepers doing
> > QA checks could help here. Deviation is permitted, if it gets through
> > a gatekeeper:
>
> Yes, I agree.  I was proposing this, in a more fine fashion: in
> addition to being able to say who goes in and who doesn't, the
> gatekeeper could also say: You go in but I am going to change your
> category to something sensible whether you want to or not.  (I.e., the
> category of a package can be overwritten by the repository.)

NO. NO. NO!  No one gets to change my package!  At least not without changing 
the version number, adding a changelog, changing the maintainer address and 
resubmitting it signed with their own key, not mine (essentially a NMU).

If/when we ever get gatekeepers (which I suspect may still be a long time 
away) then having gatekeepers review the category, check it against the 
master list and either reject it or update the master list is fine.  But all 
a gatekeeper can do is reject a package, not change it.

Graham