Re: Advice with uncooperative maintainers
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 04:20:02AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 03:04:39PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > On 12-Aug-04, 10:04 (CDT), Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:20:45AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > > > Obviously these bugs are important to you, but not everyone else will
> > > > place them at the same priority level.
> > >
> > > That's totaly correct. (And this is what NMUs are for).
> >
> > Ah, no, they are not. They are for doing something that the maintainer
> > would do if zie had the time, and that fixes a significant bug. They are
> > not for implementing random wishlift stuff.
>
> I don't take my wishlist reports from /dev/random. Even though most of the
> wishlist bugs I have sent lately are FTBFS bugs, feature requests are also a
> valid reason to NMU if the maintainer doesn't object to them.
>
> I would say that even cosmetical changes are ok for an NMU, provided that the
> maintainer doesn't object to them (But I don't have interest in filing such
> bugs, let alone interest to NMU).
Just for the record, Ryan has just uploaded v0.2.34 (the latest upstream
version, afaik) of esd, so at least I am very pleased... Please try
that one (should be available in tomorrow's sync, at least on the
not-overloaded-buildd platforms...) before continuing with this thread,
ok?
Regards: David Weinehall
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