Re: How can a non-DD fix broken packages?
On Tue, 30 May 2006, Steve Langasek wrote:
> The difference being that most of the time when someone "sponsors" an NMU,
> they're effectively shirking their own duty to follow up on the package and
> ensure that the NMU hasn't introduced any regressions. Often, they're
> shirking their duty to even check the correctness of the provided patch
> themselves.
IMHO we really should have a global NMU blacklist (no, never per-package.
That way lies lameness) which we could ask the ctte to place maintainers in
for a few months when someone does the NMU-and-forget routine and that NMU
causes problems: screw up an NMU and don't clean up after yourself, get
punished by not being able to screw up through NMUs again for a while.
We should *also* have the pts auto-add anyone who does an NMU to receive all
bug reports. If you NMU, you *are* responsible for it, and it is not nice
to make it so easy for one to forget he NMUed something, after all.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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