On 11/07/07 at 10:08 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > (1) the list should move to a text file in a VCS. For example, we could > > use a special directory in the collab-maint alioth project, or simply a > > repository writable by all DDs on svn.d.o. This would improve the way > > history is kept too. > > I feat that having 'simply a repository writable by all DDs' is not > simple at all. What about non-DD maintainers? they could be proxy-added by DDs. It already works like that for planet.d.o, for example. > > (3) make the state visible on the PTS (see #429883). For each package, > > we could have an icon indicating if the package is NMU-friendly or not. > > All packages would have an icon, so having the "NMU-hostile" icon by > > default could help maintainers remember to add themselves to the list. > > That's a good idea, perhaps the PTS maintainers could comment what the > best way of integrating the information there would be? Would inventing > a header called 'XS-NMUs-Welcome: yes' in debian/control help here? Does > it make sense otherwise to expose this information in Sources.gz? Gustavo proposed to add a debian/nmupolicy file in his DPL platform. I'm not really sure this is better than the current solution. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lucas@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |
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