On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 17:22:20 +0200, Bastian Germann<b...@debian.org> wrote:
>Okay. What do you suggest for "team maintained" packages where there is no >active team member? >File MIA processes for each of the uploaders? And then? The MIA team's bugs >are not RC bugs, >so you cannot even NMU them based on the MIA bug. > >I think, just letting such packages rot for one or two decades does not help >anybody, certainly not our users. > I interpret it as you can NMU even if it doesn't fix RC bugs, see devref 5.11.1: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#non-maintainer-uploads-nmus Different delays for "only release-critical" in combination with important bugs - and then "Other NMUs: 10 days" - which to my interpretation also means fixing non-RC bugs. Of course you should always give the maintainer a chance to react though. -- Andreas Rönnquist mailingli...@gusnan.se andr...@ronnquist.net
