Am 01.09.26 um 13:45 schrieb Jonathan McDowell:
On Tue, Sep 01, 2026 at 02:38:13PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
Control: tags 1146077 + pending
Dear maintainer,
I've prepared an NMU for openocd (versioned as 0.12.0-3.1) and uploaded
it to DELAYED/2. Please feel free to tell me if I should cancel it.
I'm not particularly impressed at the speed this went from "I'm going to
upload something that breaks your package" to "This is now an RC bug" to
"Here's an NMU that ignores the fact your package is team maintained and
in git". It doesn't seem to warrant that sense of urgency, and while I'm
sure your upload is good intentioned it doesn't seem to meaningfully
reduce the work required on the part of the maintainer.
This isn't the first time Adrian is working this way.
I've seen this multiple times the past month.
And always the excuse was "package x is in a transition". We are still
just after the release of a new stable release, so I've really some
difficulties to see some collaborative work and good intentions behind
these nearly 0-day NMUs. There is no specific pressure at the moment to
whatever transition done in the next 4 weeks.
I loose quickly the interested now to even look at such NMUs as the
speed these are done sets me under pressure (and isn't really helping me
as Jonathon also stated) as I'm working still on a voluntarily base for
Debian.
So I decided to given up packages Adrian is "contributing" something too
or will cancel such NMUs without further information.
We still have well established processes for bug and FTBFS fixing and
NMUs as well and I can't see why such NMUs are an exception from these
workflows.
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Regards
Carsten
