Hi, On 23/04/12 at 14:56 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > Greetings. > > I would like your consideration as to whether to update Section 5.11.1 of the > Developer's Reference to incorporate some of the views of Stefano Zacchiroli > concerning "When and how to do an NMU". [1] > > For background as to why this came up, there's recently been discussion about > several packages in Debian that are quite out of date compared to upstream, > including the WINE packages -- this thread starts at [2]. If you browse the > 'wine' source package at [3], you can see what has transpired: there used to > be several people collaborating on the wine packages, but for whatever reason > it ended up being left to only one maintainer doing the work. This > maintainer > has stated [4] that he has time overloaded elsewhere so that he doesn't have > time to work on the packages now, but simultaneously has QA requirements such > that all of the older pre-1.2 wine versions must be packaged first before > packaging versions 1.2 and 1.4. > > It seems like NMU(s) on the package(s) would be a reasonable course of > action, > but the current wording of Section 5.11.1 in the Developer's Reference [5] > would seem to discourage this -- or at least that's how I personally > interpret > the current wording. This is the reason I would like to revisit this issue > to > see whether updating the wording in this section would be appropriate.
Could you be a bit more specific about what you believe is not allowed to do using NMUs? Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120423202659.ga...@xanadu.blop.info
