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PW#5-2: Maintainer's reaction on non-maintainer uploads



[This mail is part of Debian Policy Weekly issue #5]

Topic 2: Maintainer's reaction on non-maintainer uploads

STATE: APPROVAL

The policy on doing non-maintainer releases is currently not very detailed.
As doing non-maintainer releases is getting quite common I suggest to
specify more details in the policy.

The following proposal is assembled from several previous discussions.
Unless someone objects, I'll include the following changes in the
Developer's Reference:

   * (As current policy says) the person doing the non-maintainer upload
     should send a bug report to the bug tracking system explaining his/her
     changes. This is extremly important so that the usual maintainer gets
     notified about the interim release.

   * The normal maintainer should do at least one of
        o apply the diff
        o read the diff and decide on each part of it themselves
        o read the description of the patches and ensure that they fix each
          problem that was fixed in the non-maintainer release.

   * If the non-maintainer upload fixes some bugs, the bugs should not be
     closed. However, the person making the non-maintainer release should
     send a short message to the bug tracking system to all the fixed bugs
     explaining that they have been fixed. This way, the maintainer and
     other people will get notified about that.

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