Re: Bug#737493: RFS: iceowl-l10n/2.6.4-1 [NMU]
+++ Vincent Cheng [2014-02-02 21:27 -0800]:
> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Jerome Charaoui <jerome@riseup.net> wrote:
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> > Le 2014-02-03 00:08, Vincent Cheng a écrit :
> >> Have you tried contacting the current maintainer prior to sending
> >> out this RFS? If they haven't responded in a timely manner, please
> >> ping the MIA team and go through the MIA process; if they did reply
> >> and simply don't have time to update their package, please get them
> >> to say so on a public list / bug report and include a link to it in
> >> your RFS bug. Otherwise, this would be considered a hostile NMU.
> >
> > As the maintainer is listed in LowThresholdNmu, I thought it would be
> > okay to upload without delay. And I did leave a note in bug #693150
> > announcing my intention and asking for feedback. Could the upload still
> > be considered as such in light of this?
>
> No, low threshold NMUs doesn't give an unconditional license to upload
> new upstream releases and/or make 0-day uploads (it's also never been
> formalized in Policy, so there aren't exactly any clear-cut rules as
> to what low threshold NMUs do allow...).
Reading the bug, this upload seems reasonable to me. The original reason
for not doing it was that versions of various ice* things needed to be
in sync. Other things are now updated so that reason for delay is gone
and this package is now uninstallable without an update. The maintainer
said that help was appreciated. This looks like help to me. Combined
with LowthresholdNMU, no complaint and a grave bug I really don't think
we should be telling Jerome that he's doing it wrong.
_Also_ working on adopting the package (if the maintainer wants that or
is MIA) is fine, but we shouldn't be requiring him to do that instead.
> Again, please try to get in contact with the maintainer, and if that
> fails, get in touch with the MIA team to get this package orphaned so
> you can adopt it and properly maintain it.
He's started that process, but shouldn't have to wait for it to complete
before we do an upload. I guess it would be better if the maintainer was
his sponsor. Guido?
Wookey
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