Package: release.debian.org Severity: wishlist Tags: patch On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 at 12:53:31 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > Sorry, I don't really know how the internals of wanna-build work, or how the > commands interact with them. After reading > <http://release.debian.org/wanna-build.txt> and > <http://www.debian.org/devel/buildd/wanna-build-states> it was reasonably > clear to me that bluez needed a dep-wait on binutils, but it wasn't clear > whether I'd also need to specify gb in order to prod w-b into doing something.
I've written some text for wanna-build.txt which attempts to describe what a give-back or dep-wait does, to avoid others making the same mistake; I see someone has already clarified with "If you are asking for a dep-wait, an additional give-back is not needed", but explaining the commands' effects in terms of the documented package states seems a good idea too. I couldn't find wanna-build.txt in a VCS, so I started from today's version: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/smcv/release.d.o.git Since http://release.debian.org/wanna-build.txt is referenced by the Developers' Reference, it seems a good idea to keep it in sync with the policy announced in <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/09/msg00005.html> (asking for binNMUs via a bug) and in <http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2009/03/msg00096.html> (asking for gb/dw via debian-wb-team), so I've attempted to do that. It's not clear to me whether these policies are still current, so if they've changed, please let me know and I'll amend the proposed wording. Thanks, Simon
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