Re: Old libgmp2 problems (was Re: Why did you break my package!)
I hope you guys are calmed down now....
Obviously both of you need to apologize to the other: Dale for any
accusations made about what Ben broke with him NMU which were
unfounded, and Ben for breaking porter NMU practices.
Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
> Port NMU's are not uncommon. The fact that I was led to believe that there
> was a bug report already filed is the only mistake I have made. Even if
> there wasn't a bug report filed, and I took the time to do one, I would
> have still NMU'd the package, simply because I can get it out faster than
> you. However, I would have only done a binary only NMU so as not to cause
> recompile on other archs. You fail to realize that sometimes arch uploads
> need to supercede ordinary NMU practices since generally speaking, the
> maintainer does not have the ability (nor sometimes the knowledge) to fix
> problems on that arch. The normal protocol is as follows:
>
> 1) Do a binary only NMU with the proper fix
> 2) File a bug report with the patch to the BTS
Ben, this is absolutely incorrect. Please read the developer's
reference, Porter section.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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