Re: Changelog policy being ignored

1997-12-17 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Ian Jackson wrote: > Hamish Moffatt: > > Is the regular maintainer required to apply the diff? In doing > > some non-maintainer upgrades just for libc6 reasons, I have > > fixed some bugs where these are readily fixed. If the non-maintainer > > work does not have to be used, t

Re: Changelog policy being ignored

1997-12-15 Thread Martin Mitchell
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The normal maintainer can of course choose not to apply the diff. > However, we should say that: > > * The person making the non-maintainer release should provide a > description of all the separate bugs that they fix. > > * The normal maintainer shoul

Re: Changelog policy being ignored

1997-12-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Hamish Moffatt: > Is the regular maintainer required to apply the diff? In doing > some non-maintainer upgrades just for libc6 reasons, I have > fixed some bugs where these are readily fixed. If the non-maintainer > work does not have to be used, there is every risk of bugs > being closed which are

Re: Changelog policy being ignored

1997-12-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 01:11:00PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It is clear that the actual maintainer, when preparing the new > > release, did not downloaded the non-maintainer release beforehand. The > > non-maintainer releases were made about 2 months befo

Re: Changelog policy being ignored

1997-12-15 Thread Martin Mitchell
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm sorry, but it's you who's not following the policy. Maintainers > are not required to download non-maintainer releases. Instead, > according to the `Developers' Reference' s4.3: > Maintainers other than the usual package maintainer should make as fe

Changelog policy being ignored

1997-12-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It is clear that the actual maintainer, when preparing the new > release, did not downloaded the non-maintainer release beforehand. The > non-maintainer releases were made about 2 months before these current > releases. > > While I don't consider these proble

Changelog policy being ignored

1997-12-15 Thread Martin Mitchell
Hi, I noticed some new updates of packages recently have not complied with changelog policy[1]. They are packages that I had made non-maintainer releases of previously, and to which I had added a changelog entry. It is clear that the actual maintainer, when preparing the new release, did not down