Re: sponsored NMU's to be forbidden (Re: How can a non-DD fix broken packages?)

2006-05-31 Thread Frank Küster
;m person D, I usually ask person C to put a "upload sponsored by person D" line into the changelog, irrespective of whether it's an NMU or not. > I'm interested in some consensus about this, because I'm in the NM > queue, and I sometimes do NMU's via my spons

Re: sponsored NMU's to be forbidden (Re: How can a non-DD fix broken packages?)

2006-05-31 Thread Bart Martens
ere we have non-DD's in changelogs too. I'm interested in some consensus about this, because I'm in the NM queue, and I sometimes do NMU's via my sponsor. I want to know wether continuing that is appropriate or not. Some parts of the documentation describe how to create an N

Re: sponsored NMU's to be forbidden (Re: How can a non-DD fix broken packages?)

2006-05-31 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Bart Martens wrote: > You sure do have a point here. But that seems to apply to both DD's and It would appply to those who can upload (i.e. DDs right now). > non-DD's. I still don't see why a sponsored NMU would be bad. It is not that sponsored NMUs are bad, it is that the

sponsored NMU's to be forbidden (Re: How can a non-DD fix broken packages?)

2006-05-30 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:48:06PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > IMHO we really should have a global NMU blacklist (no, never per-package. > That way lies lameness) which we could ask the ctte to place maintainers in > for a few months when someone does the NMU-and-forget routine and

Re: NMU's

1999-07-13 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, chris mckillop wrote: > So, in my efforts to be useful. > > I would like to help hunt out and squash some of the bugs currently > listed on bugs.debian.org. However, it would seem that a little caution > is in order. How should I approach submitting the fixes I

Re: NMU's

1999-07-12 Thread chris mckillop
So, in my efforts to be useful. I would like to help hunt out and squash some of the bugs currently listed on bugs.debian.org. However, it would seem that a little caution is in order. How should I approach submitting the fixes I perform? Should I simply do them as a patch sent to

Re: NMU's

1999-07-08 Thread Ben Collins
ith mine in > debian/control file for pgp signing or do I do it with a command line > option to dpkg-buildpackage? Also, what are the rules for doing NMU's? > > chris Several issues to be aware of: 1) did you have to make any changes to the source to get it to compile o

NMU's

1999-07-08 Thread chris mckillop
dpkg-buildpackage? Also, what are the rules for doing NMU's? chris ^^ chris mckillop - [EMAIL PROTECTED]"The faster I go, the behinder I get." Debian GNU/Linux