> If policy is changed that for portability issues immediate "normal" > NMUs are permitted, then I'd have no problem in doing this. The > point is that currently it is _not_ policy, and I'd invoke the wrath > of those developers who don't immediately understand the problem, > and who subsequently feel that their authority over their package > has been stepped on. This _has_ happened in the past...
And the policy decision for the wait period isn't without good reasons... If the maintainer is working on a new version and a sourceful NMU takes away the sources under his feet, I'd be somewhat angry, too :-) I understand the needs of both sides here, and don't know a good way to solve this. > Aside: most maintainers respond very well to my NMU bug reports, and > some actually ask how they can be more helpful, etc. This is unquestioned. I also have good experiences with the majority of Debian maintainers. Just to fight the impression that all maintainers are lame... > A couple simply never respond, and also don't make any effort to > implement the patches. This is the downside, these people also exist :-( > Is there a way to find all bug reports submitted by a particular > person (i.e. email address) ? This would help here (especially if a > constraint could be added such as "older than x days"). I wanted such a thing also already! Roman
