Re: Too much disruptive NMUs
Stefano Zacchiroli schrieb am Sunday, den 23. May 2010:
> 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.
Things like "adding a homepage field, fiddling with debhelper compat stuff"
and so on does not count as bug fixing for me, especialy if there is no open
bug for it.
Alex
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