Package: developers-reference Version: 3.3.9 Severity: normal Hi, looking at Colin Watson message [1] the section regarding the acknowledging of an NMU is outdated. With the new BTS version tracking if a package has been NMU'ed it is supposed that the author of the NMU closes the bug directly so from the maintainer is only required the incorporation of the changes in its copy of the sources.
I propose the change of this part: " Once this is done, you have to close the bugs that have been tagged fixed by the NMU. The easiest way is to use the -v option of dpkg-buildpackage, as this allows you to include just all changes since your last maintainer upload. Alternatively, you can close them manually by sending the required mails to the BTS or by adding the required closes: #nnnn in the changelog entry of your next upload. " in something like this: " Once this is done, you have to check if the bug has been already closed by the author of the NMU, in such case you have nothing else to do, in the other case you have to close the bugs that have been tagged fixed by the NMU. The easiest way is to use the -v option of dpkg-buildpackage, as this allows you to include just all changes since your last maintainer upload. Alternatively, you can close them manually by sending the required mails to the BTS or by adding the required closes: #nnnn in the changelog entry of your next upload. " Best Regards, francesco [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00010.html -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (850, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash developers-reference depends on no packages. Versions of packages developers-reference recommends: ii debian-policy 3.7.3.0 Debian Policy Manual and related d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
