On Fri, Jul 28, 2006, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Simply change the NMUs to be always 0-day, for all bugs >=normal. Which > means - upload and mail to BTS at the same time. > And such dumb rules some maintainer have like "never touch my package" > get ignored - if it complains it should do a better maintainer job...
I think this can get in the way of properly maintaining some packages and can cause additional work in some cases. I think it would be an awful move in the current state of the Debian community. First, if the maintainer is working on larger changes, he won't send a message to all of his bugs to say "hold off any NMU, I'm working on this". Second, if the maintainer is maintaining stuff in a VCS, merging the NMU can be a pain which causes additional work. Third, too many people are doing ugly NMUs and simply don't care of the result. I was the victim of multiple awful NMUs that caused additional work to me (because I had to handle upgrades from this NMU), disrupted migration to testing of package groups, introduced bugs etc. I have a problem with giving everybody the right to do 0-days NMUs, for normal (or serious) bugs, and this problem is connected to the fact that some developers do crap and *don't* *care* about it. I know that package quality can vary from person to person, and that some people *cherish* their packages, and this is not what I want to discuss. Instead, I think that the problem would be with the outlaws to the expected good behavior we should have with packages in the archive in such a scheme. Would we all be friendly to each other, the solution would be educational: we would simply learn from comments of fellows, or simply learn from our mistakes. But the current climate in Debian does not permit this. -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
