Path: csiph.com!2.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Andreas Tille Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python,linux.debian.bugs.dist Subject: Re: Random FTBFS failures of joblib and what about team maintenance Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 08:40:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Sat Dec 10 07:32:20 2016 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.211 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.311] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/14428 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20161210073204.GB9373@an3as.eu Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 22 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: 846228@bugs.debian.org, Yaroslav Halchenko X-Original-Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 08:32:04 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <20161210073204.GB9373@an3as.eu> X-Original-References: <20161207110956.GC2311@an3as.eu> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:9078 linux.debian.bugs.dist:789696 On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 12:09:55AM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > I think python-joblib has several rdepends and thus it would IMHO be > > better maintained in DPMT than in a private Github repository. What > > do you think? > > On the other side, DPMT is nothing to drop packages one does not want to > maintain anymore into.... > DPMT makes various things easier, like mass migrations, but there are no > random maintainers popping up to handle your package! I can confirm that I would pop up in cases where I would feel able to fix a bug in my rdepends if it is in a team maintained repository I have easy access. Using third party repositories has several other disadvantages - for instance Debian maintainers dashboard can't verify Vcs status. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de