RFD: Adding ability for maintainers to upload their own packages

[Dr. Volker Zell]

>>>>> Christopher Faylor writes:

    > I've been playing with the notion of allowing maintainers to upload
    > their own packages for some time.  Over the three day weekend, I started
    > implementing a method that I think will work.

Good idea.

    > None of these changes will be made to the actual release itself.  There
    > will be some sanity checking applied to new packages before they are
    > copied to the real release directory and any package deletions will be
    > archived.

Hopefully not only the setup.hint gets checked. It would be great to
check at least for some packaging standards like:

 o /usr/share/{doc|info|man} instead of /usr/{doc|info|man}
 o existence of a package README
 o No config files below /etc (instead under /etc/defaults)

These are the most popular and annoying packaging errors which can
easily be fixed by the maintainer.
 
Other things which come to mind:

 o Check for CRLF endings in text files
 ....

Ciao
  Volker