Bug#27906: devel-ref maintainer's opinion on Binary-only NMU's
Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl> writes:
> They are currently "necessary" because of the mandatory waiting
> period between filing a bug and doing a "normal" NMU (i.e. with
> source). It's not manageable for porters who do dozens if not
> hunderds of packages to keep track of all of this.
> If policy is changed that for portability issues immediate "normal"
> NMUs are permitted, then I'd have no problem in doing this.
Well! I have no problem getting policy changed to include this
clause.
> Aside: most maintainers respond very well to my NMU bug reports, and
> some actually ask how they can be more helpful, etc. A couple
> simply never respond, and also don't make any effort to implement
> the patches. In those cases a normal NMU would be in order,
> however, I can't keep track of this all. 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").
No constraint available, but see
<URL:http://master.debian.org/%7Ecpbs/bysubmitter.html>.
.....A. P. Harris...apharris@onShore.com...<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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