On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:42:33, Jon Dowland wrote: > 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. I really don't think it's as simple as that. As Russ Allbery eloquently described, just because there's a trivial bug filed doesn't make an NMU okay. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle Chris.Knadle@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74
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