Hi, It is good to care for packages from people who are currently too busy and making NMUs to fix critical/very important bugs. However, lately I have been seeing a lot of NMUs that are being very disruptive [0], you have a couple of examples below [1]. (This is not against Jari or Nobihuro, they are just the latest examples I have seen today).
I know this is done with the best intentions but if you think the package is in bad shape or neglected by the maintainer then it might better write to mia@, debian-qa@ or open a bug asking whether the package should be orphaned (or even removed). Both examples below are candidates to be orphaned. If you think this kind of changes are good, please start a discussion about changing this in the developers-reference. Ana [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu [1] This one is not even fixing a serious bug: Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 21:39:32 +0300 Source: xwrits Binary: xwrits Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.21-6.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Helen Faulkner <he...@debian.org> Changed-By: Jari Aalto <jari.aa...@cante.net> Description: xwrits - reminds you to take a break from typing Closes: 579038 Changes: xwrits (2.21-6.1) unstable; urgency=low . [ Jari Aalto ] * Non-maintainer upload. - Move to packaging format "3.0 (quilt)". * debian/clean - Mew file. * debian/compat - New file. * debian/control - (Build-Depends): update obsolete xutils to xutils-dev. (important; Closes: #579038). Remove *-1 version suffix from texinfo dependency. Update to debhelper 7.1. - (Depends): add ${misc:Depends}. - (Homepage): New field. - (Standards-Version): update to 3.8.4. * debian/copyright - Update layout and point to GPL-2. * debian/rules - Delete EOL whitespaces. - (DH_COMPAT): Remove. - (install): Update dh_clean to dh_prep. - (clean): Fix lintian debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error. * debian/source/format - New file. * debian/watch - New file. * xwrits.1 - Fix hyphens. ----------- Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 11:28:10 +0900 Source: a2ps Binary: a2ps Architecture: source i386 Version: 1:4.14-1.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <mha...@debian.org> Changed-By: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwama...@debian.org> Description: a2ps - GNU a2ps - 'Anything to PostScript' converter and pretty-printer Closes: 487183 507293 547907 557775 571571 Changes: a2ps (1:4.14-1.1) unstable; urgency=low . * Non-maintainer upload. * Update debian/control. - Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4 - Update Build-Depends on debhelper 7 - Update Depends on emacs23 instead of emacs22. (Closes: #571571) * Add debian/source/format. Set source format to "1.0". * Update debian/compat to 7 * Update debian/copyright - Add year of Copyright. - Fix copyright-without-copyright-notice lintian warning. * Update debian/rules - Remove -k from dh_clean - Remove usr/share/info/dir after installing. * Add new patches. - Fix patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff 06_encoding_texi.dpatch, 07_a2ps_info.dpatch - Fix manpage-has-errors-from-man. 08_man.dpatch * Update debian/emacsen-startup. (Closes: #557775, #507293, #547907, #487183) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100522130720.ga1...@ana.debian.net
