On Tue, 02 Feb 2010, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> Did you ever read the Developer's Reference, especially the part about NMUs?
surprisingly -- yes.  Did you?

> Where does it mention that you should NMU new upstream versions?
Where does it say that I should/must not?

It says 
"Does your NMU really fix bugs? Fixing cosmetic issues or changing the
packaging style in NMUs is discouraged."

It did fix the bugreport and allowed new package to enter Debian proper.

> When did you
> try to contact the maintainer via email or irc? KiBi is very responsive on 
> irc,
> I'm sure you would have been able to contact him.
http://wiki.debian.org/LowThresholdNmu
" You don't need to contact the maintainers beforehand, and you don't need to 
use a delayed upload queue. "

So, please please please stop polemics and lets do work.

P.S. Cyril and other parties are not CCed to avoid clutter.
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