On 11 September 2017 at 18:00, Andreas Tille wrote: | On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 08:55:58AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > On 11 September 2017 at 15:36, Andreas Tille wrote: | > | IMHO the best way to deal with this would have been by doing a mass bug | > | filing against those packages which were in need of an upgrade. This | > | would have attracted the attention of the according maintainers directly | > | and would have led to action more quickly (at least I confirm this in my | > | case). | > | > The Policy manual advises against doing that. | | What section are you refering to?
I always confuse the different manuals. The language that discourage me is here and uses 10 as an upper limit: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#submit-many-bugs So I went the route of preparing binNMUs. In hindsight I did not get the outcome I desired, but for different reasons. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
