On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 11:39:08PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Sun, 2018-09-02 at 19:46 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > If it's not tricky, a NMU should be able to fix it easily. > > I'm sorry Samuel, I asked both you and James Clarke, Cc:ed, for help on this > issue and you both said it was not possible to NMU cmake, even if you are both > DD's. See bugs > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905140 > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900240 > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905138 > > I think that the power of a package maintainer is far too big, making it > possible to reject/ignore important and other bugs, especially with patches, > for > non-released architectures (and effectively block NMUs).
The dev ref is quite clear about the right of porters to NMU: # 5.10.2.2. When to do a source NMU if you are a porter [...] # If you are a porter doing an NMU for unstable, the above # guidelines for porting should be followed, with two variations. # Firstly, the acceptable waiting period — the time between when # the bug is submitted to the BTS and when it is OK to do an NMU — # is seven days for porters working on the unstable distribution. # This period can be shortened if the problem is critical and # imposes hardship on the porting effort, at the discretion of the # porter group. (Remember, none of this is Policy, just mutually # agreed upon guidelines.) For uploads to stable or testing, please # coordinate with the appropriate release team first. Broken cmake pretty much stops the whole port (as it has direct and indirect rbdeps all around), this certainly counts as a "hardship". > I think the next step would be to bring the responsibilities and commitments > of > a Package Maintainer to the TC, in addition to the full control of everything > related to that package. Maybe the recent salvaging of packages could be > helpful > in the future regarding this problem. Stopping a whole port for a reason as flimsy as "I'm not interested in maintaining patches for things that clearly belong upstream." sounds like something that warrants escalation, yeah. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ What Would Jesus Do, MUD/MMORPG edition: ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ • multiplay with an admin char to benefit your mortal [Mt3:16-17] ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ • abuse item cloning bugs [Mt14:17-20, Mt15:34-37] ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ • use glitches to walk on water [Mt14:25-26]
