>there are currently many "binary-only" NMUs for HPPA that change the >source of the package. E.g. > > clif (0.93-1.0.1) unstable; urgency=low > . > * va_arg fixes for gcc 2.96 and later. See #103683 This is certainly in poor taste. If the HPPA people can't wait for the maintainer to turn around a new package, they should do a source NMU - it's scarcely much more work than a binary-only upload. Like any other, this rule is made to be broken, but one shouldn't make a habit of it. p.
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