Re: Patch for smail
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:07:24AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Wed 27 Jan 1999, Oscar Levi wrote:
> >
> > If this sort of NMU is made without a corresponding i386 version, is
> > there a risk of losing the patch if an x86 version is uploaded that
> > disregards the alpha patch and deb?
>
> If you do a sourceful NMU, then anyone else who does another NMU
> (irrespective of architecture) should use the currently available
> source, i.e. the NMU source.
>
> If the real maintainer does an upload ignoring the NMU patches (and the
> problem is still there), then immediately jump in and do another NMU
> with source. After a given time he'll get the point...
Excuse my ignorance. How is that maintainer going to notice the
second time if he doesn't notice the first time?
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