On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:02:34AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > However, I'm not sure I agree that a backup is totally > useless in the case of celestia. What happens if you're on vacation, > woody is released tomorrow and a RC bug is filed on celestia today and > noone cares to upload a fixed package?
If no one cares to spend a few minutes to upload a fixed package, who is interested enough to become a maintainer (even backup) of the package? If no one's interested enough to upload a fixed package, it's probably not going to be a big deal if it doesn't get released with woody. > Similarly, if you were really > busy for a while, your backup could do uploads so the users don't have > to wait for bug fixes too long. It could be just as easy for someone to pick up a backup maintainer at that point, though. One (partial) solution is to encourage developers to offer to make a NMU rather than just let bugs set. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg