On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote:
> It is not appropriate to use NMUs to change packages in ways that are
> unrelated to the bugs you are fixing, please refrain from doing that.
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu-guidelines
>

I would like to repeat again that if you are the maintainer and you
think it's not appropriate, then I'll do what you wish. Of course I
will do measurement for every package about what are possibly
acceptable and what are not, the situation varies from one package to
another.

But if you are not the maintainer, please don't just jump in and say
"foo is not appropriate nor bar", which just wastes your time on
working more stuff that are in need of your help. I would like to
thank you for your contributions to other parts of Debian and they are
really splendid work, but I feel not that thankful on this particular
topic.

Everyone has his own opinions on other people's NMUing their packages,
some of them think NMU is generally bad, while some of them just place
their name in the LowNMU list. But people aren't machine, which
sometimes hold a boolen value regarding something.

I agree that appropriate NMU notification and reasonable delay is very
well needed, and at some degree it's even better to tell them this NMU
is not for invading (reminds me about modifying the mail template of
nmudiff), but I sincerely disagree that following the practice in
devref is a reason for you to jump in and bugging people from time to
time, just like pushing them as Policy. In the end, they are not
Policy, but only "reference", which is telling people they are proven
to be safe and sometimes be easy to do when you don't know how.
Whether an NMU is welcomed is up to the maintainer's choice, but not a
random person who holds his own rules and saying please read whatever
section in devref as policy.

For some of my packages, I do think that NMU changes too much is bad,
but NMUing important bugs (like security) when I am not able to react
quick enough is highly appreciated; for some others that I maintain,
I'm sincerely feeling grateful when someone is NMUing them and wish
they can incorporate some changes that I've committed but not uploaded
due to whatever reason.

--
Regards,
Aron Xu



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