Hamish Moffatt: > Is the regular maintainer required to apply the diff? In doing > some non-maintainer upgrades just for libc6 reasons, I have > fixed some bugs where these are readily fixed. If the non-maintainer > work does not have to be used, there is every risk of bugs > being closed which are then unfixed with the next maintainer > release.
The normal maintainer can of course choose not to apply the diff. However, we should say that: * The person making the non-maintainer release should provide a description of all the separate bugs that they fix. * The normal maintainer should do at least one of - apply the diff - read the diff and decide on each part of it themselves - read the description of the patches and ensure that they fix each problem that was fixed in the non-maintainer release. Perhaps this should be incorporated into our policy ? Ian. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .