Re: Proposal to update NMU section 5.11.1
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:33:31 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>
> > Talking about improvements, if the following part about NMU acknowledgement is
> > obsolete as I think, how about removing it, either as a separate bug, or as
> > part of the general refresh of the section that is discussed here.
> >
> > To acknowledge an NMU, include its changes and changelog entry in your next
> > maintainer upload. If you do not acknowledge the NMU by including the NMU
> > changelog entry in your changelog, the bugs will remain closed in the BTS but
> > will be listed as affecting your maintainer version of the package.
>
> Is this obsolete? In my understanding this is still how the BTS
> works; but I might have missed any changes.
Yes, that's still how the BTS works. Otherwise, the MU is a descendant
of the previous MU instead of the NMU. You can alternatively just
include the changelog entries from the NMU too. Either works.
Don Armstrong
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