-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Roland Stigge wrote: > Hi,
Hi > thanks for the update. > > Steve Langasek wrote: > >>NMU policy >>~~~~~~~~~~ >>After lots of experimentation with NMU policies during the sarge release >>process, it's pretty clear that permissive NMU policies had a HUGE, >>positive impact on our ability as a project to cope with outstanding >>release-critical issues. We don't want that to stop now just because >>the sarge release is behind us; NMUs don't just speed up the release, >>they're also great for helping the quality of Debian! For this reason, >>we would like to continue the 0-day NMU policy from sarge throughout the >>etch release cycle. But first, we'd like to hear from you, the >>developers, about what *you* thought did and didn't work with NMUs for >>sarge. > > > 0-day NMUs are fine, as long as it is emphasized that it's only > appropriate if the usual maintainer doesn't work on the issue. I.e. you > either need to try to contact the developer or only operate on > reasonably "old" bugs; better both. > > Otherwise things like > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308406 > > will happen more often, and I expect even more stupid things. As seen in > this example, we also need to stress that NMUs must be done with special > care and responsibility. And the NMUer needs to be sufficiently skilled > to work on packages otherwise unknown to him. I don't like these pseudo personal attacks. I don't know what you want to imply about my skills, but I'd rather have that you at least Cc me on insults like these could be. I hope that this is not meant as one, but who will say? You are right that I should have been more careful, though I don't understand why you build your architecture independent package in binary-arch instead of binary-indep. You even kept the comments about architecture independent package intact... Cheers Luk - -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDUiIP5UTeB5t8Mo0RAu9TAKDGychKubfFPJ1GcW1mMHkI7iJiIACgyG2e gBZlpjHGXW42Ma2+TWeHO3E= =28sL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
