Re: DEP1: how to do an NMU

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Sat, May 31, 2008 at 08:41:54PM +0200, Frans Pop a écrit :
> On Saturday 31 May 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> >     * Have you clearly expressed your intention to NMU, at least on the
> >       BTS? Has the maintainer been notified of it? It is also a good
> >       idea to try to contact the maintainer by other means (private
> >       email, IRC)
> 
> IMO private mail is the wrong way to do this if the intention to NMU has 
> already been registered in the BTS. Maintainers can be expected to read 
> BTS mails for their packages [1]. Sending a private mail is not something 
> I would ever do I think.
> 
> A final attempt to ping on IRC can be appropriate in some cases.

Also, the Jabber ID of some DDs is documented in db.debian.org.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles