Re: Changelog policy being ignored
On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 01:11:00PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>:
> > It is clear that the actual maintainer, when preparing the new
> > release, did not downloaded the non-maintainer release beforehand. The
> > non-maintainer releases were made about 2 months before these current
> > releases.
>
> I'm sorry, but it's you who's not following the policy. Maintainers
> are not required to download non-maintainer releases. Instead,
> according to the `Developers' Reference' s4.3:
> Maintainers other than the usual package maintainer should make as few
> changes to the package as possible, and they should always send a
> unified context diff (diff -u) detailing their changes to the bug
> tracking system properly flagged with the correct package so that the
> usual maintainer is kept aware of the situation.
Is the regular maintainer required to apply the diff? In doing
some non-maintainer upgrades just for libc6 reasons, I have
fixed some bugs where these are readily fixed. If the non-maintainer
work does not have to be used, there is every risk of bugs
being closed which are then unfixed with the next maintainer
release.
I assume then that you suggest the non-maintainer files a bug
report with the diff, and that the regular maintainer would
close the bug when they have applied the diff.
Hamish
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