I've been busy with other things elsewhere but some recent uploads from mentors are confusing me and potentially giving the wrong impression to those whom we mentor and sponsor, IMHO.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/03/msg00002.html > I hope to see you all there fixing bugs and want to remind you that > there is still a 0-day NMU (Non-Maintainer Upload) policy active: RC > (Release Critical) bugs and Release Goal bugs that are at least 7 days > old without maintainer reaction can be NMUed without delay. Please do > test your patches, only fix bugs that are already filed to the BTS (Bug > Tracking System) when you NMU, send your NMU patch to the BTS and be > nice to the maintainer of the package you NMU. Note: "only fix bugs that are already filed to the BTS" The rest of the normal NMU rules still apply: http://www.uk.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-nmu e.g. On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 12:34 -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:46:15AM -0500, Barry deFreese wrote...... > > > Here is another one of my fairly intrusive NMUs. It fixes RC bug: > > #466143 as well as standards and lintian cleanup. > > > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rcalc/rcalc_0.5.0-1.3.dsc > > > > Description: graphical symbolic calculator > > Barry > > Looks good except for two things: > > 1. Lots of unneeded whitespace in debian/copyright. Could be > removed and also removal of comment-out lines in debian/rules. > > 2. Perhaps it would be better to have all of the source code > changes done through dpatch or quilt. I know this is an NMU and > being unobtrusive is important, but there are quite a few > upstream source code changes which I think would be better off > in a patch system. > > I'd be willing to upload once these are addressed. > So why are we doing this now? This is an NMU - minimal changes scenario. Barry is not the maintainer for this NMU, why are the rules being ignored on mentors? -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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