On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:46:38PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > I've prepared an NMU for python-apt (versioned as 0.7.100+nmu1) and > > uploaded it to DELAYED/2. Please feel free to tell me if I > > should delay it longer. > > People forget things, so remind people. Directly doing an NMU on a bug > with a single message only (the initial report) is overreaction. Send an > email, ping us on IRC (#debian-apt), but DO NOT NMU. I appreciate that > you want to help, but NMU mails just make our both lifes more > complicated than they have to be.
I beg to disagree. Please note that what Gregor did is perfectly within the scope of Developer Reference guidelines for when, how, and which DELAYED/XX queue to use when doing NMUs [1]. I understand that for actively maintained packages, such as python-apt, an NMU can induce a little bit of overhead (as the maintainer, you in this case, should then reply saying he is going to upload). OTOH we need guidelines that enable people doing massive NMU work to release Squeeze---such as Gregor and many other like him---to win the inertia of not actively maintained packages, which unfortunately are a lot. So, while you have all my sympathies for the fact that python-apt is actively maintained, it's just normal that it gets in the radar of NMU-ers and, as long as they follow the guidelines, I see nothing wrong with that. Last but not least, for actively maintained packages, the harm done is very very minor and in fact gets solved with your mail saying "OK, I'm on it, your NMU will be superseded by my maintainer upload". (I post all this essentially because we really don't want, as Debian, to discourage people from doing NMU which follow the guidelines, which is essentially the only way we currently have to release in a collaborative manner.) > Anyway, a new release will be out tomorrow. Thanks *a lot* for your work, Cheers. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela .......| ..: |.......... -- C. Adams
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