Hello, On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 10:13:44AM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > I think that one measure to improve the current situation is that, for > the people doing NMUs, to orphan the package when the number of NMUs > exceeds for example 3 or 5 in a row, or 1 year since the oldest NMU not > acked by the maintainers and there are bugs or reasons requiring new > intervention. (Exceptions can apply if there are specific reasons to > avoid to do that, e.g. keep packages as part of a team). With this, > future NMUs will be QA uploads. > > If there's a general agreement that this is a good thing, and somehow > becomes part of the NMU process or similar guidelines [2], it would help > to avoid conflicts.
If you have time to make this idea into a patch, a bug against developers-reference would be a good place to discuss it. -- Sean Whitton
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