On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:34:09 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
This appears, at least to me, to have rather substantially exceeded what
is appropriate for an uncoordinated NMU. In particular, this seems to be
inconsistent with the following paragraph from the Developer's
Reference, section 5.11.1:
* Does your NMU really fix bugs? ("Bugs" means any kind of bugs, e.g.
wishlist bugs for packaging a new upstream version, but care should
be taken to minimize the impact to the maintainer.) Fixing cosmetic
issues or changing the packaging style in NMUs is discouraged.
Agreed; while there are good points to be made about maintainership and streamlining packages etc. -- under the current best practices this is overshooting IMO.
I had thought of possibly suggesting an update to the documentation, but I'm not sure that adding more words would make the matter any more clear.
I think the docs are okay. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe`-
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