Hello, On Fri 24 May 2019 at 04:01PM +02, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > On 14/05/19 at 14:30 -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: >> I think there's a fairly clear consensus emerging that it's worth having >> things to check when making a build system conversion. Looking at >> debdiff, ditherscope and reproducibility of the build all appear to be >> important things to consider in such a case. >> >> So, I think there is an emerging consensus against the idea of people >> NMUing a package simply to convert it to dh. >> >> First, I'd like to explicitly call for any last comments from people who would >> like to see us permit NMUs simply to move packages toward dh. Are there >> any cases in which such an NMU should be permitted? > > Our NMU policy (Sec 5.11.1 of developers-reference[1]) tries hard to Note that nothing in dev-ref is binding on developers, so I think it's a bit misleading to use the term 'policy'. All of dev-ref is guidelines. Otherwise, I think your summary of what dev-ref says about NMUs is correct. -- Sean Whitton
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