On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 09:34:04 +0300 (EEST), Panu Matilainen wrote: It is "sanitized" already in that upstream developers _should_ take over the testing and classification into stable/unstable, and reviewers need not take responsibility for any run-time issues they might miss. Reviewers then only need to make sure low-level packaging mistakes are avoided and any important parts of guidelines are adhered to. Upstream developers, who do the packaging, make packaging mistakes too. In particular if they aim at providing distribution-independent spec files or "user-friendly" packages which output a lot to stdout. Or they might not be completely accustomed to specific guidelines. Upstream developers can also provide GPG signatures for the released tarballs on the project home page, so other packagers benefit from that.