On Fri, 09 Jun 2017, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Per the DEP: > > > > > it is very useful for a maintainer to know that a change has been > > > approved by someone who has been trusted by the project with the > > > technical ability to NMU the package > > > > This would be much more cumbersome to achieve with PRs. > > I'm not sure why this is very useful. It can, in some cases, be a > useful data point, but in general, as the maintainer, I'll want to > review the patch in the same way no matter whether it came from somebody > with a key in the keyring or not.
Not just that. If it is for NMUs, one also has to ensure it matches what got uploaded (regardless of method: NMU patch, PR, branch...). -- Henrique Holschuh
