Re: Outstanding patches in the BTS
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:59:36AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:48:18PM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote:
> > Hi, there are four outstanding bugs in the BTS from me
> > containing Hurd related patches for:
> > libsasl7 (#95881)
> > libgc5 (#98084)
> > smail (#98085)
> > w3m (#98086)
> >
> > One bug has been resolved:
> > bsd-games (#98562)
> >
> > bsd-games can be added to the autobuilder if it hasn't been already.
> >
> > But what about the other ones? I've just sent the patch for libgc5
> > to the upstream maintainer. Should I try to annoy the debian
> > maintainers for the other packages or just go over their head?
>
> Just follow the normal rules for non maintainer uploads. Announce in the
> bug report that you plan to do a source NMU. Wait a couple of days. If
> nothing happens or you get the okay, do it. If there are objections, we'll
> have to take a closer look at it.
That's a reasonable approach, except that I'm not a debian maintainer.
So if there is an NMU to be done, someone else would have to do it.
Igor
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