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Bug#790125: RFS: dropbear/2015.67-1.1 NMU



Hi Vincent, Gerrit,

On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 at 18:42:53 -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> NMUs are intended to be minimally intrusive and be targeted to fix
> specific bugs (and usually RC/important ones); that means that in
> general, you should avoid things like new upstream releases and
> extensive packaging changes, and your proposed debdiff should be as
> small as possible.

Yes I know: I intended to split the initramfs stuff, but I couldn't make
multiple binary packages into the same source package without major
refactoring.

> Your changes are more in scope of a package adoption than a NMU.

I'd be open for adoption of dropbear-initramfs indeed, but it's best to
keep the same source package for the three dropbear-*, hence my offer to
co-maintenance instead ;-)

> While I don't want to discourage you from doing extensive work to
> improve dropbear, you'll likely find it difficult to find a DD other
> than the maintainer who's willing to sponsor this as a NMU.

Fair enough, I'll wait then.  Thanks for you answer anyway :-)

-- 
Guilhem.

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