On 12/08/08 at 10:06 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:28:53PM -0300, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > > > After a long delay, here is a final call for reviews and comments for > > DEP1. > > > Hi Lucas, > > First of all, since we already dedicated a lot of time to find > compromise on the text, let me make clear that I do not object to it, > that I do not want to delay or block anything, and that you can ignore > my comments if you want. > > After reading it again, have the two following comments: > > - The whole section would start with a paragraph mentionning that a NMU > is the consequence of the failure of the maintainer(s). I find this > unfortunate, and my opintion is still that NMU should be for helping > maintainers or fixing urgent issues. If the maintainers are really in > situation of failure, then NMU is in my opinion not a viable > long-term solution and should be discouraged. Replacing "fails" by > "needs help" would enhance the text a lot. For instance, it fits much > better, the many "feel free to NMU" sentences we can read on the > vacation emails on debian-private.
OK, why not. Changed locally (it's not visible on people.d.o). > - Some teams maintain their packages in repositories that are writable > for all Debian developpers, and document relevant URIs in > debian/control. I can not speak for others, but when a NMU is done on > my packages, I welcome a commit or a patch to keep the repository > consistant with the Debian archive. Do you think that it would be > possible to add such a recommendation in the DEP ? I am personally not against the idea of direct commits in case of NMUs. However, I fear that adding something like that to this patch might be controversial, so I would prefer not to do it for now, to reach a consensus on this patch, and to commit it. After that, we can have a discussion about: - Should people be encouraged to commit the changes they make in an NMU to the package's Vcs? - Should people be encouraged to commit any change (not necessarily resulting in an upload) to the package's Vcs? -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
