Re: NMU policies for etch
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Steve Langasek wrote:
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>>On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:28:55AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
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>>>Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
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>>>>- don't NMU for feature requests (i.e., wishlist bugs) without the
>>>> maintainer's prior approval
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>>>Shouldn't NMU's without the maintainers approval be restricted to RC and
>>>maybe important bugs?
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>>>
>>Isn't that my question? :)
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>Well, IMHO only if we want to increase the hostile takeovers. What could be
>easily solved with a few NMUs will get much uglier.
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>Note that I am all for going postal over anyone that breaks an essential
>package or does something equally stupid in an NMU.
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>There is one thing that should be mandatory on all NMUs, though. It must be
>built inside a *CLEAN* pbuilder chroot for whichever distro the NMU is going
>to be uploaded to. low-disk-IO autobuilder-style chroots where packages are
>installed and removed and sometimes leave breakage behind do NOT count.
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