[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Schwarz) wrote on 13.01.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> * (As current policy says) the person doing the non-maintainer upload
> should send a bug report to the bug tracking system explaining his/her
> changes. This is extremly important so that the usual maintainer gets
> notified about the interim release.
The diffs should be included in that bug report, to make sure they stay
available.
> * The normal maintainer should do at least one of
> o apply the diff
> o read the diff and decide on each part of it themselves
> o read the description of the patches and ensure that they fix each
> problem that was fixed in the non-maintainer release.
s/patches/changes to the next upstream version/
> * If the non-maintainer upload fixes some bugs, the bugs should not be
> closed. However, the person making the non-maintainer release should
> send a short message to the bug tracking system to all the fixed bugs
> explaining that they have been fixed. This way, the maintainer and
> other people will get notified about that.
I thought we had agreed on
* If the nmu fixes many bugs, close the bugs, but reopen a new one
with the diffs
MfG Kai
