I've been getting mails every five minutes that look like this: On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:39:03PM -0400, Archive Administrator wrote: > Probably you are the uploader of the following file(s) in > the Debian upload queue directory: > xft_2.1.2-4.0cjk.1.diff.gz > xft_2.1.2-4.0cjk.1.dsc > This looks like an upload, but a .changes file is missing, so the job > cannot be processed. > > If no .changes file arrives within 21:53:36, the files will be deleted. > > If you didn't upload those files, please just ignore this message. > > Greetings, > > Your Debian queue daemon Upon asking James Troup to move this thing out of the upload queue, and upon inspecting the .diff.gz, we find: xft (2.1.2-4.0cjk.1) unstable; urgency=low * Applied cjk patch from 2.1.1-2.0cjk.1 by Taku YASUI <tach@debian.or.jp>. -- Topia <topia@clovery.jp> Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:27:16 +0900 It is thoroughly inappropriate to make an NMU of a package with no prior notice to the package maintainer, no notice for (at least) hours afterwards, and which neither rectifies any policy problems nor resolves any bugs. Never do this again. If there is a deficiency in the xft package, you should file a bug with the Debian Bug Tracking System. I or another member of the X Strike Force will investigate with the problem, coordinate with upstream, and attempt to determine a fix. I surmise that it is possible due to the nature of the patch and the top-level domain of your address that you might not speak English well and may not have been comfortable filing a bug report or making a request to the debian-x mailing list in that language. If that is the case, then you should have first contacted ISHIKAWA Mutsumi <ishikawa@debian.org>, who is a member of the X Strike Force (and therefore co-maintainer of XFree86, Render, Xrender, Xcursor, and Xft) who speaks both English and Japanese (and maybe other languages besides). On top of that, he's technically competent, and may be able to evaluate the patch you have applied for correctness and suitability for submission to the upstream authors of the Xft library. Please go through proper channels in the future and refrain from the sort of disruptive activity you have just practiced. -- G. Branden Robinson | You should try building some of the Debian GNU/Linux | stuff in main that is branden@debian.org | modern...turning on -Wall is like http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | turning on the pain. -- James Troup
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