Re: NMU procedure
[removing most CCs and setting reply to -devel]
Hi,
On Sunday 27 February 2011 14:21:25 Hector Oron wrote:
> 2011/2/27 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>:
> > there are a number of NMUs currently in the delayed queue, adding armhf
> > support to some packages. The bugs referenced in those uploads have
> > seen no notification of any such upload, and no NMU diff has been sent.
> > Please fix this. And in the future, do that before you upload, per
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu
>
> * Patches in BTS are hanging since last year, 2010.
November 2010, during the freeze.
> * NMU were discussed on -devel without any objection [0]
> * Severity was raised Feb 14, 2011 for part of the packages and
> maintainers should be aware of that [1]
> * Everyone that has complained, we have removed the upload from
> delayed queue (#604681)
> * A bug has been created to have armhf as release goal and ease
> release team track this goal (#615513)
>
> I do really apologize in case we have miss something, we'll try to do
> better next time.
Let's list a few things:
* I didn't like that there was no notification on the bug report
* Raising the severity doesn't really imply anything
* The release goal has not been acked by the release team AFAIK
* You could have probably saved some time yourself by not NMUing every single
package. In my case, for kgb, I highly doubt anyone uses it on arm* and one
upload per release to clean it up should be enough (there won't be any new
releases upstream).
Anyway, it came as a surprise, but I didn't complain when I saw dak's email
because I really don't mind.
If you ask me, I would say that providing a magic for file(1) as I said on
debian-arm[1] would be more useful that NMUing a few hanging fruits.
Lintian will annoy people with one tag per ELF object otherwise.
[1]http://lists.debian.org/201102191920.02232.geissert@debian.org
Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
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