Re: 0-day NMUs, DELAYED/n uploads
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Richard Hecker wrote:
> Yes, we do have a problem. From section 5.11.1 of our developers
> reference (http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference), the
> admonition is to "contact the developer first, and act later." It
> appears to me that people do not even understand what the usual
> rules are for NMUs.
This is the usual courtesy; notifying the maintainer and concurrently
uploading to the DELAYED queue satisfies 5.11.1. After all, the
maintainer can at any time that the package is in the DELAYED queue
override the actual upload, so no real action is taken until the DELAY
time runs out.
That said, the testing and stable release managers can and do
authorize more rapid uploads for RC issues which have been open for
longer periods of time.
In the instant case, we're discussing a bug whose maintainer was
notified via a patch before an upload to DELAYED/5 was even done
(which satisfies 5.11.1 even if for some reason the DELAYED queue is
seen not to) whose maintainer still hasn't responded.
Don Armstrong
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