Re: A Round of Removals
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:05:30AM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote:
> One question: Are NMUs appropiate for some packages without following the
> Dev-policy (if we do then the time will run out and this packages will be
> removed).
No, you should follow the "usual" rules. There's no need to go overboard
on the bureacracy, and maintainers have already had months to respond
to these bugs if they were going to.
Highlights:
* get it right
* don't mess with other people's packages - make minimal changes
to fix the problem, keep the changes in line with the
maintainer's maintenance of the package, etc
* make it easy for the maintainer - explain everything about what
you've done, log it in the BTS, cover any other ways of doing
things that you considered but rejected, be prepared to fix
any problems the maintainer raises that you hadn't thought of
or hadn't thought were important
Cheers,
aj
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