On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 00:42:57 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 07:18:14PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Because bugs may also have been (or seem to have been overlooked). The > > risk here is that the person doing the NMU thinks "oh, that's an old > > issue and the fix seems so simple" and goes ahead and NMUs it, while > > there may be very valid reasons for not fixing it (or at least not with > > _that_ fix). > > Then they should have been mentioned in the bug log, shouldn't they? > > ... and IME they usually *are* for active teams, so I'm not sure I can > buy your argument. I rather conclude that active teams won't risk > anything with the procedure which is being proposed, while not active > teams will see NMUs, as they should. > That's probably true for RC bugs, but I can't swear all bugs with a patch in my packages have a maintainer comment. This DEP wants to extend NMUs to all bug severities.
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