Hi Thomas, * Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> [2008-10-06 00:11]: > Have the NMU rules recently been changed in a way I was unaware of? I > recently encountered a 0-day NMU of a package of mine to fix an > important bug, a normal bug, and a non-bug, without any patch posted to > the bug log. Looking at http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=tb I only see two packages currently having NMUed versions in unstable. lilypond (fixing 1 normal, 1 important) and jacal (fixing 1 important). No idea about the normal bug but NMUing important bugs is documented in the developers reference. The 0-day NMU policy applies as announce on -devel-announce before as always before releases. Besides that nothing had changed recently to my knowledge. > In my judgment, it is unlikely that the release team would > welcome this upload into testing (though I don't care much either way > really). It doesn't meet the criterea for a freeze exemption as far as > I can tell. That means that if an RC bug does appear, it will be extra > hassle for me to make the right upload to fix it. > > But the NMU rules change with some regularity, and there isn't a single > canonical place with the current rules at any point in time. What's the > current deal? Not that I know, I don't think there is a current status page specific to NMUs. Everything available should be on http://release.debian.org/ I think. Cheers Nico -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - nion@jabber.ccc.de - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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