* Sandro Tosi: " Re: Bug#935565: vatnumber: diff for NMU version 1:1.2-8.1" (Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:29:29 -0400):
> > As I am generally active, the patch or a MR via salsa would > > have been sufficient. > > it's not always easy to figure out if a maintainer is active or no, > and an NMU is sure to go thru even in case of inactivity/ You cited https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#nmu and it is this one I am also referring to: " Have you clearly expressed your intention to NMU, at least in the BTS? If that didn't generate any feedback, it might also be a good idea to try to contact the maintainer by other means (email to the maintainer addresses or private email, IRC). If the maintainer is usually active and responsive, have you tried to contact them? In general it should be considered preferable that maintainers take care of an issue themselves and that they are given the chance to review and correct your patch, because they can be expected to be more aware of potential issues which an NMUer might miss. It is often a better use of everyone's time if the maintainer is given an opportunity to upload a fix on their own. " > > Please take care of closing the bug, since the closing > > tag is missing from the changelog. > > that's now how it usually works: you open a bug report to let the > maintainer now there an NMU pending with the attached NMU patch, you > just cannot refer that number in the changelog since you open the bug > _after_ uploading the NMUed package. you can read more about NMU at > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#nmu Of course it is possible to first open a bug report and then attach a patch. Or just post the patch and don't NMU in the first place like I proposed. > That been said, i saw you merged the patch in the changelog, but did > not upload vatnumber yet. so please do, and you can just then go ahead > and close this report, otherwise the NMU will be uploaded and you can > then acknowledge this but report in the next upload. I am trying to handle the work of others as respectful as I can. Also I don't want to do work twice. I expect you have built and tested vatnumber before uploading. I would have to do this once more. Therefore I am *not* interfering with your upload. Nevertheless I ask you to propose your changes in future first before NMUing, I am glad to receive patches. The NMU like that causes for more work than a patch would have been. Cheers, Mathias -- Mathias Behrle PGP/GnuPG key availabable from any keyserver, ID: 0xD6D09BE48405BBF6 AC29 7E5C 46B9 D0B6 1C71 7681 D6D0 9BE4 8405 BBF6
