On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:32:47PM +0200, Ricardo Mones wrote:
> > So? NMUs are not only for serious bugs.
>
> Then, as Ana said, the developers reference should be changed because
> that's just the opposite of the first point in 5.11.1 "When and how to do
> an NMU": «Does your NMU really fix bugs? Fixing cosmetic issues or
> changing the packaging style in NMUs is discouraged.»
No, logics fails here. Between serious bugs and cosmetic issues there's
a huge range of possibilities.
For instance, NMU are allowed for important bugs (see the suggested
upload delays in devref §5.11.1) and fixing those does not qualify as
making cosmetic changes; well, at least it does not according to my own
interpretation of it.
Cheers.
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