Hi, If you try to find mentors to support NMU, I was suggested to use https://mentors.debian.net/ to upload your package first, and you have to file a RFS bug against the sponsorship-requests[1] pseudo-package. I think fixing these bugs could be sequential.
Woodrow [1] https://mentors.debian.net/sponsors On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 11:52 PM Steve M <s...@swm1.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have never contributed before and am trying to make a NMU patch to > prevent package timeshift from being removed on 21Feb2020. The autoremoval > bug for timeshift is 948130 [1]. I attempted to contact the maintainer 3 > days ago but have not yet received a reply. This leaves me little hope that > this RC bug can be closed in time without an NMU. > > The fix is quite simple and was made in the upstream git repo, but has not > been released yet. I have built the package locally but am at a loss of how > to proceed next. I was lead to believe that using nmudiff was the correct > next step, but I’m afraid I’ve stuffed that up as it made a new bug report > [2] instead of sending it to the existing bug [1]. > > Please advise on how I should proceed. > > Thanks > -Steve Meliza > > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/948130 > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/951590 > >
