Ben Hutchings wrote: > >On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 06:08 -0700, Mo Zhou wrote: >[...] >> In brief: >> * if maintained by person: no restriction, given that >> the maintainer is not MIA >> * if team-maintained: recommend dh > >I would suggest almost the opposite. If a team is happy to use an >unusual tool, that's OK because there is (usually) at least one team >member available to work on the package. But when there is a single >maintainer, it is more likely that the maintainer will be absent at >some time (even though they are not completely MIA), and NMUs will be >required. Then it's important that other random developers can do the >NMU.
I was thinking just the same, yes. From experience at a lot of BSPs (for example), it's most often the obscure-workflow single-maintainer packages that take the most effort to work on. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.
