Too much disruptive NMUs
Hi,
It is good to care for packages from people who are currently too busy and
making NMUs to fix critical/very important bugs. However, lately I have been
seeing a lot of NMUs that are being very disruptive [0], you have a couple of
examples below [1]. (This is not against Jari or Nobihuro, they are just the
latest examples I have seen today).
I know this is done with the best intentions but if you think the package
is in bad shape or neglected by the maintainer then it might better write
to mia@, debian-qa@ or open a bug asking whether the package should be
orphaned (or even removed). Both examples below are candidates to be orphaned.
If you think this kind of changes are good, please start a discussion about
changing this in the developers-reference.
Ana
[0] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu
[1]
This one is not even fixing a serious bug:
Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 21:39:32 +0300
Source: xwrits
Binary: xwrits
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.21-6.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Helen Faulkner <helen@debian.org>
Changed-By: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Description:
xwrits - reminds you to take a break from typing
Closes: 579038
Changes:
xwrits (2.21-6.1) unstable; urgency=low
.
[ Jari Aalto ]
* Non-maintainer upload.
- Move to packaging format "3.0 (quilt)".
* debian/clean
- Mew file.
* debian/compat
- New file.
* debian/control
- (Build-Depends): update obsolete xutils to xutils-dev.
(important; Closes: #579038). Remove *-1 version suffix
from texinfo dependency. Update to debhelper 7.1.
- (Depends): add ${misc:Depends}.
- (Homepage): New field.
- (Standards-Version): update to 3.8.4.
* debian/copyright
- Update layout and point to GPL-2.
* debian/rules
- Delete EOL whitespaces.
- (DH_COMPAT): Remove.
- (install): Update dh_clean to dh_prep.
- (clean): Fix lintian debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error.
* debian/source/format
- New file.
* debian/watch
- New file.
* xwrits.1
- Fix hyphens.
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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 11:28:10 +0900
Source: a2ps
Binary: a2ps
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1:4.14-1.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <mhatta@debian.org>
Changed-By: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@debian.org>
Description:
a2ps - GNU a2ps - 'Anything to PostScript' converter and pretty-printer
Closes: 487183 507293 547907 557775 571571
Changes:
a2ps (1:4.14-1.1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Non-maintainer upload.
* Update debian/control.
- Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4
- Update Build-Depends on debhelper 7
- Update Depends on emacs23 instead of emacs22. (Closes: #571571)
* Add debian/source/format.
Set source format to "1.0".
* Update debian/compat to 7
* Update debian/copyright
- Add year of Copyright.
- Fix copyright-without-copyright-notice lintian warning.
* Update debian/rules
- Remove -k from dh_clean
- Remove usr/share/info/dir after installing.
* Add new patches.
- Fix patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff
06_encoding_texi.dpatch, 07_a2ps_info.dpatch
- Fix manpage-has-errors-from-man.
08_man.dpatch
* Update debian/emacsen-startup.
(Closes: #557775, #507293, #547907, #487183)
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