Paul Slootman wrote: > They are currently "necessary" because of the mandatory waiting period > between filing a bug and doing a "normal" NMU (i.e. with source).
There's that argument again. Binary NMU's aren't a recognized method of uploading stuff to debian, according to the policy manual, packaging manual, or developers reference, or any other debian documentation I've seen. And people keep thinking that 2 wrongs make a right, they can break policy by doing an binary NMU, and this somehow allows them to break policy by doing a NMU w/o contacting the maintainer first or waiting. > It's not manageable for porters who do dozens if not hunderds of packages to > keep track of all of this. BTW, I posted a message that showed how you could keep a rolling list of bug reports and satisfy policy WRT to waiting on the maintainer, without having to keep up with a lot of information, or slow down your porting efforts. I haven't had any flaws pointed out in it. > If policy is changed that for portability issues immediate "normal" NMUs > are permitted, then I'd have no problem in doing this. I don't think it's techincally necessary to do this, but if it makes your job easier, I'm all for it. -- see shy jo
