On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:52:02PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Actually, from personal experience, bugs are not fixed because the > > maintainer is against all NMUs, even those that follow the steps > > described in the sysklogd's source 'debian/NMU-Disclaimer'. The > > current maintainer's handling of bugs and suggestions to NMU for > > this package discourages people to either NMU or help him integrate > > patches included by other distributions (like Red Hat / Fedora) into > > the version in Debian. > > Since we periodically have bug squash parties, and NMU's for > long standing bugs ought to be permissible (use N-day delayed uploads > if one wants to be extra careful), this should not be an issue.
The maintainer explicitly says that those are not an option, quoting from the file I mentioned: " These rules always apply. They even apply if somebody declares NMUs as ok and reduces regular NMU rules to a delay of zero days. Unless I'm on vacation or on a show I am reachable via mail, so there is hardly a reason not to contact me. " The maintainer, at some point during a private conversation, even discouraged me to upload to *experimental* a new version of sysklogd fixing the issues I have prepared. That's why they ended up in my p.d.o page (they are not there anymore BTW). Regards Javier
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