On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 03:03:53PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Honestly I'd be happy if we could just establish some expectation that > > the NMUer open a merge request for their changes. It can be merged > > later without losing anything or requiring additional work. Enforcement > > of this expectation would be even better, of course. > > the current expectation is that an NMU bug is opened, which contains > the debdiff. > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/developers-reference.en.html#when-and-how-to-do-an-nmu > > "... Then, you must send a patch with the differences between the current > package and your proposed NMU to the BTS. The nmudiff script in the > devscripts package might be helpful...."
Right, and that's not a whole lot more helpful than requiring me to download the sourcepackage and generate the debdiff myself. Sure all the content is there, but it's still a tedious amount of work that's easily forgotten. Further, it loses a little bit of metadata, in that the git commit now comes from me, rather than the person doing the actual NMU. Yes, I know this is trivial, and yes I know I can fix it with more work; I don't want NMUs to make more work for me. It makes me not like NMUs. noah
