Re: NMU versioning (was: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads)

2008-04-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:17:12PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I'd be very unhappy about that. For one, I think using such suffix in a field that forms part of users' everyday's life is, uhm, inappropriate or disruptive. What do they care if the version is a NMU or not? Hu? And +dfsg is

Re: NMU versioning (was: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads)

2008-04-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote: I want a consistent versioning scheme, thus +nmuX for both native and non-natives packages. I'd be very unhappy about that. For one, I think using such suffix in a field that forms part of users' everyday's life is, uhm, inappropriate or

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads

2008-04-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/04/08 at 10:59 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, thanks for starting an initiative to make NMs more useful and accepted! For now I just have two procedural remarks. On Thursday 24 April 2008 21:42, Bas Wijnen wrote: [0] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep0/ [1]

Re: NMU rules for security fixes (was: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads)

2008-04-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/04/08 at 18:32 +0200, Nico Golde wrote: What about introducing a special case regarding the waiting period before uploading an NMU for security bugs? There are often cases in which we already have a patch handy to fix a security issue but still wait a few days on the maintainers

Re: NMU rules for security fixes (was: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads)

2008-04-26 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Saturday 26 April 2008 02:07, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Paul Wise wrote: I'd prefer the security team did not delay fixes at all by default. Exceptions for specific maintainers, transitions or other reasons are fine too of course. For stable and testing, I agree.

NMU versioning (was: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads)

2008-04-25 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:42:59PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: This DEP is available on the Debian Wiki[1]. The version must be the version of the last upload, plus +nmuX, where X is a counter starting at 1. The above was added to the DEP to match dch but dch only uses that format for native NMUs

Re: NMU versioning (was: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads)

2008-04-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
(reply-to set to debian-devel only) On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, James Vega wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:42:59PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: This DEP is available on the Debian Wiki[1]. The version must be the version of the last upload, plus +nmuX, where X is a counter starting at 1. The

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads

2008-04-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, thanks for starting an initiative to make NMs more useful and accepted! For now I just have two procedural remarks. On Thursday 24 April 2008 21:42, Bas Wijnen wrote: [0] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep0/ [1] http://wiki.debian.org/NmuDep Why isnt the second URL

NMU rules for security fixes (was: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads)

2008-04-25 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Bas, * Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-04-24 23:34]: We (Bas Wijnen, Lucas Nussbaum) worked on a Debian Enhancement Proposal[0] on the policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs). The main purpose of the proposal is: * to explicitely allow fixing bugs of severity lower

Re: NMU rules for security fixes (was: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads)

2008-04-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about introducing a special case regarding the waiting period before uploading an NMU for security bugs? There are often cases in which we already have a patch handy to fix a security issue but still wait a few

Re: NMU rules for security fixes (was: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads)

2008-04-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Paul Wise wrote: I'd prefer the security team did not delay fixes at all by default. Exceptions for specific maintainers, transitions or other reasons are fine too of course. For stable and testing, I agree. However, for unstable and experimental the maintainer should be

DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads

2008-04-24 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi, We (Bas Wijnen, Lucas Nussbaum) worked on a Debian Enhancement Proposal[0] on the policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs). The main purpose of the proposal is: * to explicitely allow fixing bugs of severity lower than important in NMUs. * to encourage the use of the