Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Svante Signell wrote:
>> Yeah, I guess that makes sense, *if* the person doing the NMU then owns
>> any bugs they introduce and of course doesn't do anything drastic like
>> rewriting the build system. And provides plenty of warning.
>
> Please, what can I do being a _contributor_ compared to these "high
> level package maintainers", except filing bug reports. Please advice a
> stupid user who just wants to be using Debian as a GNU/* release(and
> having recent software in them) .
Anyone, anyone at all, can prepare an NMU (non-maintainer upload), but
non-DDs need to find a sponsor to do the actual upload (best
coordinated via mentors). See:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu
http://mentors.debian.net
Best wishes,
Mike
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