On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:16:24AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> > When a new source gets uploaded, it replaces the previous.  If several NMUs
> > occur, each one replaces the former.  So, when the real maintainer(s) wake 
> > up,
> > they can only see the most recent NMU that took place.
>
> Only if each NMU does not build upon the previous _and_ each NMU
> fails to follow NMU guidelines and submit a bug with the complete
> NMU diff to the BTS.

The bts is the only way this occurrs.

Several maintainers now maintain their packages completely within version
control.  I can see them wanting to have every version ever uploaded as a
separate tag/branch(whatever).

If an NMU upload does not file a bug, then this becomes problematic.


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