Vasyl Gello writes ("Re: Re: git-buildpackage: import-orig --uscan passes
--symlink unconditionally"):
> Hi Ian,
> > Certainly.
>
> Then I will just leave the patch here.
Great.
I'm going to reply to your next part in general terms. I hope Guido
will agree with me.
> Well, I might have misunderstood the Policy but isnt the NMU while
> maintainer is active a kind of unfriendly takeover? I might
> misunderstand the Policy then!
>
> If NMU is appropriate here, let me fix other bugs in gbp while Guido
> is busy.
The way I look at it is that doing an NMU is trying to do the
maintainer a favour. If you are polite and nice about it, then you
are simply taking a task off their todo list. That is helpful.
Obviously you want to give the maintainer plenty of early information,
and time. That avoids a situation where the maintainer come back from
a week or two away to find an unpleasant surprise. That will give the
maintainer time to let you know what they think.
If you wish to consider an NMU, make a plan for which bugs you will
try to upload fixes for - and of course taking into account the freeze
schedule. Share that with the maintainer (in one of the bugs, like
this one) is a good way.
When you do upload you should consider the use of one of the DELAYED
queues.
Regards,
Ian.
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