Ian Jackson:
Niels Thykier writes ("Bug#1086944: sauce: diff for NMU version 0.9.2+nmu1"):Since the bug has now become RC, I am rescheduling it to 5 days (down from its original delay).Thanks for taking care of this.
You are welcome. :)
This package needs some love - I have a branch of changes I need to release,l too - but I will attend to chiark-utils first. Ian.
Indeed, it seemed like a package that could do with a modernization. Since it was not going to become fully rootless with current the dpkg/debhelper tool-stack, I figured I would just do a short cut.
PS long dgit plug, which you are free to ignore: You might want to consider doing your NMUs with dgit. Every package can be NMU'd that way for a change like this - see dgit-nmu-simple(7).
I am considering it for future cases.I think the biggest blocker is whether I will be doing regular NMUs from here. If not, I am likely to forget the `dgit` flow again and revert to my previous finger memory.
[...] > (Personally, also, I would have preferred if you had done it
that way,
since I think that we all have duty to publish our source code properly. But I think it would be curmudgeonly of me to *complain* to you about that - both because this is not a principle that Debian as a whole has accepted, and because your conduct of this whole project has generally been so excellent. For the avoidance of doubt not using dgit doesn't cause me any practical problem here, given that I'm happy to just wait for your DELAYED upload to appear. So don't consider this a complaint. Thanks again for your work!)
Ideally, I had learned `dgit` for NMUs before the MBF. That did not happen, so now it is hopefully I adopt it now and it sticks for the next time I need to do mass-NMUs. Though, in the middle of this MBF, there were already too few brain-cells available for the things that needed attention.
I did make an exception for `vm` since you explicitly asked for it and I knew `dgit` mattered a lot to you. At that time, I had already uploaded the `sauce` NMU ~8 hours earlier and it was therefore crossed off my list. I was pretty mentally toasted at the end of each of my NMU runs those days, so I cannot say for certain how I would have reacted if you had asked for it retroactively on the sauce bug as well (with the 0-delay carrot that `vm` also had). Though, generally, I was primarily motivated by immediate progress, so I think I would have gone for it. Especially, since the `vm` case came out successfully in the end.
Also, thanks for praising my conduct.
Finally, FYI since I as maintainer use dgit it is quite difficult for me to accidentally make an upload which drops changes from an NMU. When the maintainer always uses dgit, this could happen only if the NMU went to DELAYED *and* wasn't made with dgit. (When that's happened, there is no sane machine-accessible way to detect the upload.)
:) Best regards, Niels
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