Updated proposal for improving the FTP NEW process

[Chris Lamb]

Hi Lars,

I'm happy that the ftp masters are doing their job in the best way
they can. This includes any re-reviews of packages already in the
archive, at whatever points they choose, be that when there's a new
binary package from an old source package, randomly chosen packages,
or targeting packages whose SHA3 ends in 42.

$ cd /srv/ftp-master.debian.org/queue/new

$ sha384sum *.changes | fgrep '42 '
d317231d0cc6ed33e2b7436a1416a3edf94dd85dc12fd108eb2a813bfe0d81bbf6b16ca149dcfe6fdeb866b8a3d5f742 node-split-string_4.0.0-1_amd64.changes

$ dak process-new node-split-string_4.0.0-1_amd64.changes
+ cd /srv/ftp-master.debian.org/tmp/daks3W5PW
+ dpkg-source -x node-split-string_4.0.0-1.dsc
[…]
Add overrides, Edit overrides, Check, Manual reject, Note edit, Prod, [S]kip, Quit ?a
PENDING ACCEPT


Regards,

[Wouter Verhelst]

Post by Chris Lamb
Hi Lars,

I'm happy that the ftp masters are doing their job in the best way
they can. This includes any re-reviews of packages already in the
archive, at whatever points they choose, be that when there's a new
binary package from an old source package, randomly chosen packages,
or targeting packages whose SHA3 ends in 42.

$ cd /srv/ftp-master.debian.org/queue/new
$ sha384sum *.changes | fgrep '42 '
d317231d0cc6ed33e2b7436a1416a3edf94dd85dc12fd108eb2a813bfe0d81bbf6b16ca149dcfe6fdeb866b8a3d5f742 node-split-string_4.0.0-1_amd64.changes

That's not SHA3, SHA384 is an algorithm from the SHA2 family (yes that's
possibly confusing).

If you want SHA3, you need to install libdigest-sha3-perl, which
includes a sha3sum script in /usr/bin.