Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> writes: > Le Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 08:36:26AM -0500, Matthias Julius a écrit : >> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes: >>> Would it be possible to record the name of the human that marked the >>> package in debian/changelog? That would be a big help, I think (and >>> hopefully avoid a discussion on debian-devel next time it happens) >> Since this is about a binNMU where the source package is not touched >> and the changelog lives inside the source package how is that supposed >> to be possible? >> >> Adding to the changelog requires a new upload. > Would it be that a bad idea ? There has been a lot of talk explaining > that there is no need to leave written justifications for binNMUs, but I > think that we are stil clueless about the problem it was supposed to > solve in the case of Bacula... At least Steve notes the reason for his bin-NMUs on http://ftp-master.debian.org/~vorlon/transition-binnmus.txt In the case of bacula, it was indeed done to rebuild against a newer mysql version. Marc -- BOFH #445: Browser's cookie is corrupted -- someone's been nibbling on it.
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