On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 06:46:02PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > Looking into the d-d-a archives, I find something about NMUs during > BSPs in May 2007 (<20070513172244.GA14578@solar.ftbfs.de>) for the > last time, and then (and since then, e.g. > <47CCF6CE.7050004@debian.org> in March 2008) the "everlasting BSP" > announcement in September 2007 (<20070901130447.GH27719@zomers.be>). > AFAICS this made its way into DevRef via #625449 in March 2011. > In <20110329095102.GX37987@feta.halon.org.uk> (which leads to this > bug / DevRef change), the RT mentions that the "perpetual 0-day NMU > policy ... has worked well for the past five years, and so will be > submitting a bug against dev-ref to make this official." For the record, I don't think the wording in the devref matches the NMU policy that the release team was encouraging prior to that. In particular, the devref says that a 0-day NMU should be done only if: [...] fixing only release-critical bugs older than 7 days, with no maintainer activity on the bug for 7 days and no indication that a fix is in progress This is definitely more conservative than what I recommended while RM. As far as I'm concerned, any time there is an RC bugfix included in the upload, unless there are other changes included that you have reason to believe the maintainer will disapprove of, it should automatically be a 0-day NMU. Otherwise, the effect is that we're telling NMUers they should choose between doing a thorough job of fixing the package while NMUing, and providing timely help to the release. Likewise, I think that an RC bug being old or new, touched by the maintainer or not, factors into the decision about whether to spend the effort on preparing an NMU; but once the NMU has been prepared, I don't think it usually makes much sense to upload with a delay... it may have been duplicated effort, but it doesn't benefit anyone to delay the upload once it's been done. So I think the current language in the devref is a conservative compromise based on the discussions at the time. I would not like to see it enshrined as a hard rule that NMUers are going to get yelled at if they violate. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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