Hi I've just met an uninstallable package with 3-week-old RC bug, caused by soname change of one of dependences. This bug could be fixed by a simple rebuild - I've checked if package builds against today's sid - yes it does. I've never done an NMU before, but this looks like a case to try :) However, reading developer reference about NMUs, I got confused by normal vs binary-only uploads for this case. Is it ok just to add something like * Non-Maintainer Upload * Rebuild against newer libicu (Closes: XXX) to deban/changelog, build with pbuilder, upload with dput --delayed 2, and drop a mail to maintainer? Or something else should be done? Triggering binary-only NMUs on every architecture somehow? Build-depending on newer libicu-dev [I guess no since package perfectly builds against older libicu-dev]? Something else? Also, is it ok to NMU keeping existing lintian warnings (such as package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version, out-of-date-standards-version, patch-system-but-no-source-readme)? I don't intend to (co)maintain this package in future, it is just a single-time interest. Please advice :) Nikita
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