On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, Christoph Biedl wrote: > > NACK is just rude. > > It's a stern warning that something is going wrong here. Kept short > since the first thing is to avoid an upload that causes trouble, and > there was no information how much time there is left.
« Please don't upload this, it's not working. I don't have time to give more details right now but you can verify that it doesn't work with the reproducer available in the bug report » is short and respectful. > If you call that rude I don't know I should call the compliments I > have received for my attempts to improve Debian. I don't know what you have suffered in your attempts to improve Debian, and I'm sorry if you got rude comments too. But it's not a reason to perpetuate such bad habits. > > For the records, I don't see your name in > > https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/secure-testing/data/dla-needed.txt?view=markup > > which is where we indicate that we plan to take care of applying > > the relevant security fixes of a given package to squeeze-lts. > > I indeed forgot about that this time. So go ahead. Nguyent already replied to you[1] to inform you that you can go ahead and the he discarded his work. I updated dla-needed.txt to put your name. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2015/02/msg00041.html > > It's always nice when maintainers want to join the LTS effort, but > > most maintainers are not interested in taking care of their packages in > > squeeze-lts so it's quite common to release LTS updates without any > > coordination with the maintainer. > > And that's a bad thing. The maintainer very likely has more experience > with the package than anybody else, and also with the packaging. Knows > the gotchas in the code. Has out-of-tree test suites, and better > connections to upstream. > > Plus, when preparing up to four updates for an issue, a cross- > distribution comparion helps to identify possible shortcomings in the > fix. I certainly agree with this, but not all maintainers want to take care of their packages in old releases. So what should our ideal workflow be ? Shall we ping the maintainers when we add a package to dla-needed.txt and put debian-lts@lists.debian.org in copy so that everybody who helps can know the maintainer's answer ? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lts-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150217153641.ga11...@home.ouaza.com
