Re: NMU with new upstream
On Thursday 19 Sep 2002 2:06 pm, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> Sorry, but a NMU (but for QA uploads) is generally an 'in extremis'
> choice to correct bugs, or to be done when the maintainer appears
> inactive (or possibly MIA). Changing upstream version is not
> a good thing, 'cause it can introduce more errors than corrections.
> Leave this at maintainer choices. Eventually open a wishlist bug
> or send a backported patch.
If the new version has been out a long time and is well tested, and there is
a minimum of patch rejects I think it is OK. I built an NMU of a new version
of libxslt for the first Debian package I ever wrote and it was in the
archive for some time, with no bugs reported.
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