On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Richard Hecker wrote: > Yes, we do have a problem. From section 5.11.1 of our developers > reference (http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference), the > admonition is to "contact the developer first, and act later." It > appears to me that people do not even understand what the usual > rules are for NMUs.
This is the usual courtesy; notifying the maintainer and concurrently uploading to the DELAYED queue satisfies 5.11.1. After all, the maintainer can at any time that the package is in the DELAYED queue override the actual upload, so no real action is taken until the DELAY time runs out. That said, the testing and stable release managers can and do authorize more rapid uploads for RC issues which have been open for longer periods of time. In the instant case, we're discussing a bug whose maintainer was notified via a patch before an upload to DELAYED/5 was even done (which satisfies 5.11.1 even if for some reason the DELAYED queue is seen not to) whose maintainer still hasn't responded. Don Armstrong -- Identical parts aren't. -- Beach's Law http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
