Re: RFC: Prospective NMU of ndoutils-nagios3-mysql to close #607925
Konstantin Khomoutov schrieb am Thursday, den 13. January 2011:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:24:10 +0100
> Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de> wrote:
>
> > > > > Hmm, well, this does not strictly relate to this bug, but I
> > > > > think that would be cool if the script performing removals
> > > > > would also send a message to the NNNN@bugs.debian.org so that
> > > > > the persons subscribed to it were set aware of the removal;
> > > > > otherwise I've no idea how would I know the package is removed.
> > > > > Should I raise this on debian-devel (after the release
> > > > > probably)?
> > > > >
> > > > A mail is sent to the pts for that package. I don't think tying
> > > > it to a particular bug makes a lot of sense.
> > > My reasoning is as follows:
> > > * I have spotted a bug in a particular package and filed a bug
> > > report against it; thus I got auto-subscribed to that bug, and only
> > > to it with regard to that package.
> > > * The package got removed because of that bug.
> > > * Since the only my involvement with that package was filing that
> > > bug, I remain blissfully unaware of what really presents a big
> > > problem for me, the bug originator; something I'll have to deal
> > > with in some way. IOW, the removal just silently happened behind my
> > > back.
> > >
> > > Sure, I could subscribe to the package in its QA page, but it has no
> > > sense for a casual user who just filed a bug. I'd also argue that
> > > it has not much sense for a "power user" like me as I did not
> > > intend to took over the maintenance of that package or something
> > > like this.
> > Any new about the NMU?
>
> Heh, a couple of hours ago I posted a message to pkg-nagios-devel
> pledging for someone from the Nagios packaging team to sponsor my NMU
> as both the uploaders which usually sponsor my uploads appear to be
> busy. But it seems that the message did not reach the list, at least I
> do not see it archived.
>
> In any case, my call for help still holds, so may be you could direct
> me to someone who could do the upload?
>
> The source package's URL (ready for `dget`) is [1].
>
> 1. http://sites.google.com/site/khomoutov/debian/ndoutils_1.4b9-1.1.dsc
Uploaded.
Thanks
Alex
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