On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:41:43PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > Should porters be required to NMU? I would hope not in this quantity as > someone who NMU's should consider themselves a virtual maintainer until > the next upload (or at least I've read this a few times from people such > as aj?). If you NMU you need to either not break anything, or fix the things you break. I'm not sure what would be a reasonable way of achieving that for fixes for new OSes -- it might be that we need better automated testing first, so that we find out that a package doesn't build right as soon as it stops building right, rather than only the next time someone uploads it. > Perhaps we can recommend marking bugs as -patch if the patch is no good? Yeah; that's (meant to be) implied by the def'n of the patch tag. > Pierre Habouzit answered the rest [5] pretty well. See also that debian-bsd > also answers user questions promptly from time to time. I'm confused that that list shows up more posts in the Jul-Dec 06 archives than I remember from last time I looked. Is there an alioth kfreebsd list or something I might've been looking at instead? Cheers, aj
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