Re: Bug#444514: marked as done (gpredict: FTBFS: error: 'GtkTooltips' undeclared)

[Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@in-medias-res.com>]

Hi,

IANADD, but...

On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 01:28:36AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Shall we open bugs for each and every problem encountered, with
> individual patch, and then check them regularly through the QA? Or fix

yes, thats probably the best way to go.

> them all while we're at it, and then be slapped by the maintainer, and
> eventually some of them reverted or fixed in a different way? I took the
> second road until now, increasing my blame counter from 0 to 1.

Thats probably not the way to go. Consider that NMUs purpose is to fix bugs (!)
if serious problems are to be addressed and the maintainer is not able to do an
upload in a timeley manner. See the developers reference for best practices:

http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-nmu

It states: "Do not do housekeeping tasks, do not change the name of modules or
files, do not move directories; in general, do not fix things which are not
broken. Keep the patch as small as possible. If things bother you
aesthetically, talk to the Debian maintainer, talk to the upstream maintainer,
or submit a bug. However, aesthetic changes must not be made in a
non-maintainer upload."

Regards,

Patrick