Re: Bug#243129: NMU in DELAYED/3-DAY
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:51:39 -0700, Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> said:
> Marc Dequènes (Duck) <Duck@DuckCorp.org> writes:
>> Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> writes:
>>
>>> If this upload introduces bugs, upload a package fixing them. If
>>> it doesn't create any bugs, why complain? because someone thought
>>> they could you a bit? Bugs will appear eventually, or maybe a new
>>> upstream version and you will upload anyway later. Or if it really
>>> bugs that much to have someone NMU your package, just upload the
>>> damn dummy package.
>>
>> I fully desagree with this behavior because :
>> 1) i find more respectful to give the maintainer some days to work
>> on
>> the problem as requested in the Developer's Manual
>> 2) this was a quick and BAD(tm) fix, probably (i'm working on this
>> "probably") hiding a bigger problem. I really think a NMU must not
>> be "instinctive" uploads.
> Oh, what's the big fucking deal? If you're not happy with the NMU,
> then upload a better package than the one NMU'd. If you do it
> within three days, no one will ever even see the NMU. That seems
> like it would be a lot more productive than these NMU bitchfests.
Indeed, if you think that the NMU is a regression, or has
misfeatures, or would be in the way of the correct fix, you can just
upload a version identical to the current one, with a debian revision
bump, effectively retaining the current version.
manoj
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