Re: Formal declaration of weak package ownership in source packages (was: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers)
* Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> [161206 10:10]:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 09:18:49AM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> > What I currently find inconvenient about the LowThresholdNmu page is, that it
> > is external to the source package. So after having found a package I want to
> > fix I have to manually look up on that wiki page whether the maintainer is fine
> > with NMUs and if it applies to the source package at hand.
>
> I wouldn't even think of making a NMU without looking at the PTS, and that
> page states "LowNMU" right to the maintainer's name.
Note that this indication is just that, an indication. Various maintainers have
exceptions to which packages the LowNMU threshold applies, but the
PTS does not understand that.
Many maintainers also say something like "check with co-maintainers"
and then you end up in a circle, where all co-maintainers have that
exception listed ...
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christian hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>
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