On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:41:06PM +0000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > Hi Adrian,
> On Monday, 23 July 2018 09:18:02 +1000, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I would be happy to help with the review and the sponsorship > > of this NMU if Steve is unable to go ahead and do it himself. > Thank you for the offer to review and (potentially) sponsor my NMU of > FreeType 2. > Mattia Rizzolo has taken ownership of the RFS bug and has provided an initial > review of the NMU [1]. > I have since updated the package on Debian Mentors to fix the issues > identified. > I believe Mattia is busy until Tuesday evening, but I hope the package > can be uploaded to the NEW queue soon. I don't see why anyone involved in this discussion thinks it's appropriate to introduce new binary packages in an NMU. I have no particular attachment to freetype. I ended up as a maintainer of last resort because the package needed some attention with regards to library maintenance. I am generally not in a hurry to update to new upstream versions of this library, because I have yet to see a new upstream version that did not introduce functional regressions, and automated CI of freetype is pretty much impossible. So I would have no objection to someone adopting freetype. But if someone is going to adopt freetype, they should do so properly, with a clear committment to the project to be responsible for the package over the longer term; not by uploading NMUs that significantly change the packaging and leaving the existing maintainer holding the bag on any bugs. I haven't reviewed the proposed NMU diff in depth, because I stopped the moment I saw that it was proposing to introduce new binary packages, a change for which there was no prior bug report in the BTS. I am disappointed that the prospective sponsors here were not similarly given pause. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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