I hope you guys are calmed down now.... Obviously both of you need to apologize to the other: Dale for any accusations made about what Ben broke with him NMU which were unfounded, and Ben for breaking porter NMU practices.
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Port NMU's are not uncommon. The fact that I was led to believe that there > was a bug report already filed is the only mistake I have made. Even if > there wasn't a bug report filed, and I took the time to do one, I would > have still NMU'd the package, simply because I can get it out faster than > you. However, I would have only done a binary only NMU so as not to cause > recompile on other archs. You fail to realize that sometimes arch uploads > need to supercede ordinary NMU practices since generally speaking, the > maintainer does not have the ability (nor sometimes the knowledge) to fix > problems on that arch. The normal protocol is as follows: > > 1) Do a binary only NMU with the proper fix > 2) File a bug report with the patch to the BTS Ben, this is absolutely incorrect. Please read the developer's reference, Porter section. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
