Bug#27906: devel-ref maintainer's opinion on Binary-only NMU's
> If policy is changed that for portability issues immediate "normal"
> NMUs are permitted, then I'd have no problem in doing this. The
> point is that currently it is _not_ policy, and I'd invoke the wrath
> of those developers who don't immediately understand the problem,
> and who subsequently feel that their authority over their package
> has been stepped on. This _has_ happened in the past...
And the policy decision for the wait period isn't without good
reasons... If the maintainer is working on a new version and a
sourceful NMU takes away the sources under his feet, I'd be somewhat
angry, too :-) I understand the needs of both sides here, and don't
know a good way to solve this.
> Aside: most maintainers respond very well to my NMU bug reports, and
> some actually ask how they can be more helpful, etc.
This is unquestioned. I also have good experiences with the majority
of Debian maintainers. Just to fight the impression that all
maintainers are lame...
> A couple simply never respond, and also don't make any effort to
> implement the patches.
This is the downside, these people also exist :-(
> Is there a way to find all bug reports submitted by a particular
> person (i.e. email address) ? This would help here (especially if a
> constraint could be added such as "older than x days").
I wanted such a thing also already!
Roman
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