Package: release.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 at 12:53:31 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Sorry, I don't really know how the internals of wanna-build work, or how the
> commands interact with them. After reading
> <http://release.debian.org/wanna-build.txt> and
> <http://www.debian.org/devel/buildd/wanna-build-states> it was reasonably
> clear to me that bluez needed a dep-wait on binutils, but it wasn't clear
> whether I'd also need to specify gb in order to prod w-b into doing something.
I've written some text for wanna-build.txt which attempts to describe what
a give-back or dep-wait does, to avoid others making the same mistake; I see
someone has already clarified with "If you are asking for a dep-wait, an
additional give-back is not needed", but explaining the commands' effects in
terms of the documented package states seems a good idea too.
I couldn't find wanna-build.txt in a VCS, so I started from today's version:
http://git.debian.org/?p=users/smcv/release.d.o.git
Since http://release.debian.org/wanna-build.txt is referenced by the
Developers' Reference, it seems a good idea to keep it in sync with the
policy announced in
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/09/msg00005.html> (asking
for binNMUs via a bug) and in
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2009/03/msg00096.html> (asking for
gb/dw via debian-wb-team), so I've attempted to do that. It's not clear to me
whether these policies are still current, so if they've changed, please let
me know and I'll amend the proposed wording.
Thanks,
Simon
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