Christian Kurz wrote: > Right, but the above sentence had in my opinion the intention that > even QA-Members not have the permission so set a bug to priority fixed > and this should be made clear. Also what should a QA-Member do if he > finds a grave/important bug during freeze time and the maintainer isn't > reachable? Do we have to wait until he's back and release a buggy > version or is debian-qa to make a NMU or even close the bug?
Section 7 of the developer's reference lays out a set of guidelines (just guidelines) that make sense in general. If one were to follow them, then: During the release freeze (see Section 6.2.2.1, Uploading to _frozen_'), NMUs which fix important or higher severity bugs are encouraged and accepted. Even during this window, however, you should endeavor to reach the current maintainer of the package; they might be just about to upload a fix for the problem. -- see shy jo