Re: Long task to do.
On 99-10-19 Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 12:07:19PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote:
>
> > Hm, if somethings just needs a recompilation, then contact the
> > maintainer about this problem and offer your help to him. We don't need
> > to open a task for jµst recompilation.
> In fact I would suggest to just recompile and NMU if that works. I don't
> think an upload with unchanged source should count as "real" NMU.
It it still an NMU as you are not the maintainer of the package itself.
If somebody does this with one of my packages without sending a notify
to me before, I would be angry about it. If it's not your package, it's
definitely an NMU.
> > > Going through the bug list is hard a boring work. Bug I think we could
> > > cut the the number of release critical bugs a lot this way.
> >
> > Well, Thorsten Landschoff did a great work on this, but he also hasn't
> > much spare time at the moment. So neither he or I have enough time and
> > so the number is going to increase. But I hope to change this soon.
> I could fix a lot of bugs from the list in nearly no time but I do not want
> to do this as long as there is time for the maintainer to react himself.
> Most of the bugs are not too old. The other half is very hard to fix.
ACK
> When I get time I will again go over the list and recompile everything I can
> offering to NMU.
Well, I will work on the RCB bugs at the weekend and see what I can do.
So, Thorsten, could we talk about this in IRC please (I think we could
maybe share some load between us.)
Ciao
Christian
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