Re: Bug#868558: nmu: multiple r-* packages
On 11 September 2017 at 18:00, Andreas Tille wrote:
| On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 08:55:58AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >
| > On 11 September 2017 at 15:36, Andreas Tille wrote:
| > | IMHO the best way to deal with this would have been by doing a mass bug
| > | filing against those packages which were in need of an upgrade. This
| > | would have attracted the attention of the according maintainers directly
| > | and would have led to action more quickly (at least I confirm this in my
| > | case).
| >
| > The Policy manual advises against doing that.
|
| What section are you refering to?
I always confuse the different manuals. The language that discourage me is
here and uses 10 as an upper limit:
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#submit-many-bugs
So I went the route of preparing binNMUs. In hindsight I did not get the
outcome I desired, but for different reasons.
Dirk
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