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Re: what to do is maintainer is lacking? (was: wine-unstable in Debian)



On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:28:33AM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
> The way section 5.11 is written, it implies NMUs are for bug fixes only.  It 
> literally states "Fixing cosmetic issues or changing the packaging style in 
> NMUs is discouraged."  Nowhere in the section is it implied that NMUs can be 
> used to upload new versions of software, so I still think that's not what 
> they're for.  :-/  [Please correct me if you believe this is not the case.]

"Please package new upstream version X" is a regularly filed bug.


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