Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They are currently "necessary" because of the mandatory waiting > period between filing a bug and doing a "normal" NMU (i.e. with > source). It's not manageable for porters who do dozens if not > hunderds of packages to keep track of all of this.
> If policy is changed that for portability issues immediate "normal" > NMUs are permitted, then I'd have no problem in doing this. Well! I have no problem getting policy changed to include this clause. > Aside: most maintainers respond very well to my NMU bug reports, and > some actually ask how they can be more helpful, etc. A couple > simply never respond, and also don't make any effort to implement > the patches. In those cases a normal NMU would be in order, > however, I can't keep track of this all. 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"). No constraint available, but see <URL:http://master.debian.org/%7Ecpbs/bysubmitter.html>. .....A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
