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Re: upload protocol
On Oct 10 18:46, David Stacey wrote:
> On 10/10/12 10:31, Warren Young wrote:
> >As it happens, I think this sort of gun-jumping happened with the
> >Doxygen 1.8.0-1 packages. I gave a GTG with reservations to the
> >ITP, several days ago. David said in the thread he was off
> >working on addressing some of those reservations, but then
> >yesterday Corinna uploaded from the ITP message.
> >
> >I'm not regretting my GTG. I thought the packages were at least
> >no worse than my 1.7.4-1 packages that David's packages replace.
> >But, I think David was expecting a second chance before sending
> >the RFU.
>
> Yes, I was a little surprised when my doxygen package was uploaded!
> I had made the changes that Warren suggested, and I sent another
> [ITP] message last Thursday (4 Oct 2012):
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2012-10/msg00021.html
>
> As a newbie, I didn't know whether to wait for more comments, or to
> submit a [RFU] (as I'd been given a GTG) - maybe someone would be
> kind enough to clarify this. But before either could happen, the
> package got uploaded anyway! But to repeat: the package that was
> uploaded included the suggestions that Warren made.
Sorry for having been too quick. Usually I upload what's branded GTG
and since your new package was just a minor tweak I didn't see any
problems.
Corinna
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