On Thursday 19 Sep 2002 2:06 pm, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > Sorry, but a NMU (but for QA uploads) is generally an 'in extremis' > choice to correct bugs, or to be done when the maintainer appears > inactive (or possibly MIA). Changing upstream version is not > a good thing, 'cause it can introduce more errors than corrections. > Leave this at maintainer choices. Eventually open a wishlist bug > or send a backported patch.
If the new version has been out a long time and is well tested, and there is a minimum of patch rejects I think it is OK. I built an NMU of a new version of libxslt for the first Debian package I ever wrote and it was in the archive for some time, with no bugs reported. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
