Re: [Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>] Do the HPPA "binary-only" NMUs violate the GPL?
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Matt Taggart wrote:
> James Troup writes...
>
> > Grr, guys please don't do this. That's not what binary-only NMUs are
> > for. If you need to make changes to the source, then do a sourceful
> > NMU. As porters you have a lot more leeway WRT permission to do
> > sourceful NMUs (i.e. you don't necessarily have to ask permission,
> > wait silly amounts of time etc.).
>
> I suspect the majority of the cases where this is occurring is when
> config.{sub,guess} needs updating for hppa. When we encounter those we file
> a bug, update those files to the newest upstream version and do a binary-hppa
> upload. We figured that there was no reason to force the other archs to
> recompile and everyone to download the new package, etc. At some point we'll
> need to go back and review all those bugs to make sure they have been dealt
> with.
>
> What do you think? Would a source-NMU be better?
>...
I'd suggest to send a RC bug that contains something like a "when you
make no upload and don't disagree I'll do a (source) NMU in one week".
> Thanks,
cu
Adrian
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