Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> Is that a polite way of saying that it is a policy that 'make uninstall'
> should work in order for an app to be hosted by f.g.o?
>   

That sort of policy would be fairly unenforcable. The point of 
ftp.gnome.org is to distribute components of the GNOME suite - although 
we do try to enforce quality assurance on applications that are part of 
GNOME, it's not done by blanket conditions that prevent a tarball upload 
if they're not met.

If an application does not support "make uninstall" it's a bug. Just 
like if it crashes on Ubuntu systems, or doesn't translate it's custom 
text to different languages. The difference is that it gets tested less 
often and by fewer people.

So if you see an application doing this, file a bug - and the maintainer 
will probably try to fix it.

--
Andrew