Re: NM's to fix bugs?

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

Andreas Barth <aba-debian@not.so.argh.org> wrote:
[Bugs]
> Well, and (for me) more importantly: I've send patches for different
> bugs, asked for more information from the bug submitter and so on
> (about two weeks ago) for two different packages. No reaction from
> either maintainer nor any bug submitter.

Could you tell us which bugs?

> Well, now it's the question
> for me how long to wait until trying a NMU

developers' reference gives some guidelines, it depends on the bug's
severity.

> (and that would be really difficult for a non-maintainer).
[...]

It is possible, I've done it myself.
              cu andreas