On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 04:15:33PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > I have drafted a new DEP at > > https://salsa.debian.org/dep-team/deps/-/merge_requests/8 titled "DEP-18: > > Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages". > > Hi Otto, > > thank you for your initiative, > > one problem I have with NMUs in team-maintained package is that they > often bypass Salsa… Would it make sense to add to the DEP a request > that NMUs are started from and pushed to the default branch?
+1 Regardless of what VCS is used, an NMU that bypasses it just makes more work for the maintainer. If not pushed, there should at minimum be an open merge request that applies cleanly to whatever was in the archive prior to the NMU. It would be nice to codify this. noah
