Re: Bug#868558: nmu: multiple r-* packages
On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 11:12:24AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> 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.
This paragraph describes exactly what you are supposed to do to do a
_M_ass _B_ug _F_iling (MBF) and there are several examples on
debian-devel.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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