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

[kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)]

schwarz@monet.m.isar.de (Christian Schwarz)  wrote on 13.01.98 in <[🔎] 199801132234.XAA04197@klee.painters.schwarz-online.com>:

>    * (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 diffs should be included in that bug report, to make sure they stay  
available.

>    * 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.

s/patches/changes to the next upstream version/

>    * 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.

I thought we had agreed on

    * If the nmu fixes many bugs, close the bugs, but reopen a new one  
with the diffs


MfG Kai