Or: change the mechanism to avoid a trip through NEW for simple cases that Chris outlined: new binary or soname bump. Reserve NEW for truly new things.
On March 5, 2018 9:00:06 AM CST, "W. Martin Borgert" <deba...@debian.org> wrote: >Quoting Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org>: >>> In many cases, there is an issue open about the new binary package >> >> (In my experience, there is not.) >> >>> When there is no bug report open at all, well, bad luck. >> >> Well, possbibly, but if one is investing time and effort in changing >a >> process it seems a shame not to cover these cases IMHO. :) > >True. Proposal: Maintainer should make sure they have a bug open about >any new binary packages and close them with the upload. If they forget >this "goto badluck;". -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
