On Thu 22 Oct 1998, Roman Hodek wrote: > > > If policy is changed that for portability issues immediate "normal" > > NMUs are permitted, then I'd have no problem in doing this. The > > point is that currently it is _not_ policy, and I'd invoke the wrath > > of those developers who don't immediately understand the problem, > > and who subsequently feel that their authority over their package > > has been stepped on. This _has_ happened in the past... > > And the policy decision for the wait period isn't without good > reasons... If the maintainer is working on a new version and a > sourceful NMU takes away the sources under his feet, I'd be somewhat > angry, too :-) I understand the needs of both sides here, and don't > know a good way to solve this.
Hmm, I usually keep my current version of the sources of my package locally. It's a small effort to implement any diffs submitted to the BTS to my development version in any case. So, I don't think that "a sourceful NMU takes away the sources under his feet" is applicable. > > Is there a way to find all bug reports submitted by a particular > > person (i.e. email address) ? This would help here (especially if a > > constraint could be added such as "older than x days"). > > I wanted such a thing also already! I think I'll submit a wishlist bug against the BTS. Or is it programmed to ignore those? :-) Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl | Murphy Software, Enschede, the Netherlands
