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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
