In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tobias Wolter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 2003-06-29T12:40:56+0000 (Sunday), Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >> Yes, NMUing essential packages without bothering to contact the >> maintainer is cooperation at work. NOT. > >Between pissing off a maintainer and leaving a not-so-insignificant >part of Debian quite utterly broken, I'd go for the former.
We're talking about unstable here. Read the developers reference, http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html paragraph 5.11.3, under Uploading bug fixes to unstable by non-maintainers should only be done by following this protocol: .... Now, did the NMU follow the rules in the developers reference ? Mike.
