On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: >> That's where nmus help. Someone that does care and does have the time >> can go ahead and get the features interesting them (and likely many >> other users) to work. > > That's only true if you're happy with all of the changes being reverted in > the next maintainer upload. > > If you're not happy with that, then no, NMUs do not help with this. > Rather, they are a passive-aggressive way of *forcing* a maintainer to do > work to incorporate changes that they already decided they didn't want to > incorporate. That may be appropriate if what's actually happening is that > the package is orphaned, but when it's a disagreement over how the package > should be maintained, it's more likely to just start a revert war, which > doesn't make anyone better off.
Not if the nmu has a sufficient delay (DELAYED/10 or DELAYED/30 or whatever would be agreed on). The maintainer can cancel things that he doesn't like before they get uploaded. Given a cancelling, it is then a problem for the contributor approach in a way the maintainer approves, and if not and they continue to disagree with the maintainer, then a trip to the Tech Committee. Again, all of this is rather rare, and only done by a DD who knows the consequences of his/her actions and who we're already trusting with the power of nmu. We should try to get out of the way of capable people trying to make things better. Best wishes, Mike -- 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/CANTw=mn7pympqfzrfgwgh6imbxkwmajhsfuia6krucurqg2...@mail.gmail.com
