Re: DEP 15: Reserved namespace for DD-approved non-maintainer changes

[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 5:18 AM, Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:
> Someone might contribute a fix in the form of a PR, and an uploader of
> the package might review that fix and determine that it should be
> merged.  They then look at the master branch and decide that it should
> not go into the next upload, for whatever reason.  So they can merge the
> PR to next/sid.

Respectfully, why? And why does that unusual workflow need a DEP?

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha