On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 02:22:34PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > This would definetly be useful, as it would help someone from wasting > time preparing the NMU in the first place, but it certainly doesn't > excuse making NMUs without notifying the maintainer beforehand. If the maintainer can't be bothered to respond to a bug report, the maintainer doesn't deserve any kind of notification.