Re: Ideas about allowing Co-maintainer

2003-10-05 Thread David B Harris
On 05 Oct 2003 13:13:55 +0200 Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no point for me working on those bugs if the patches will > just rod in the bts or be thrown out so as not to differ from > upstream. As I said before I won't work on the debian package again > without an assur

Re: Ideas about allowing Co-maintainer

2003-10-05 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 15:14, Mark Brown wrote: > Have you tried working directly with upstream on these bugs? The upstream maintainer is Andries Brouwer. He says that he is _very_ busy and that patches sent to him should be thoroughly tested for several months before he will consider applying the

Re: Ideas about allowing Co-maintainer

2003-10-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-05 13:13]: > I also was told to rather get upstream to include patches to keep > debian changes minimal. > > There is no point for me working on those bugs if the patches will > just rod in the bts or be thrown out so as not to differ from > upst

Re: Ideas about allowing Co-maintainer

2003-10-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-05 14:14]: > Have you tried working directly with upstream on these bugs? I don't > know about the maintainer of util-linux but for me that would be the > most convenient way to handle something like this. Forwarding things on The upstream maintainer of

Re: Ideas about allowing Co-maintainer

2003-10-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:13:55PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > There is no point for me working on those bugs if the patches will > just rod in the bts or be thrown out so as not to differ from > upstream. As I said before I won't work on the debian package again > without an assurance by

Re: Ideas about allowing Co-maintainer

2003-10-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-14 16:26]: > > Will you sponsor an NMU for util-linux? > > > > It has ~150 bugs collected over the last 5 years, several of those > > with patches and some policy violations. Bugs ranging from grave

Re: Ideas about allowing Co-maintainer

2003-10-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-14 16:26]: > Will you sponsor an NMU for util-linux? > > It has ~150 bugs collected over the last 5 years, several of those > with patches and some policy violations. Bugs ranging from grave to 1.5 Months are over, and yet I don't see any patche