Bug#864271: [Pkg-protobuf-devel] Bug#864271: RFS: protobuf/3.3.1-0.1 [NMU]

[Lumin <cdluminate@gmail.com>]

Hi GCS,

Thank you for the quick reply.

On 6 June 2017 at 10:06, László Böszörményi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org> wrote:
>> Clarification-moreinfo:
>>   this tag is for protbuf maintainers to approve this NMU.
>  You misspelled the package name and the tag as well, among other things.

Sorry for the typo, I fixed that tag via control several hours ago.

> Upload sponsorship is for packages you maintain or heavily outdated
> with unresponsive maintainers. I do not see this scenario and the NMU
> is a NACK from me.

Indeed, that's why the [NMU] and "moreinfo" tags are added.

>>   * Bump ABI version to 13, renaming lib packages.
>  I'm not near to any Linux box at at the moment, just a question: did
> you check any possible reverse dependency? Did you check the GCC 7
> build issue or adding the Ruby bindings?
> In short, why is the rush and without contacting us first, its
> maintainers, you want to NMU it? Especially with mistakes like you add
> the changelog entry with a patch - grrr!

I intent to ping you maintainers about a package update since there
is a new upstream version available and a patch for ruby package available.

I didn't do the things you listed but I really checked the bug list
before sending out the ping mail. My original intention is that, if you
guys really had a plan to update this package, I can continue to
help more about it.

Sorry if the "RFS/NMU" keywords make you unhappy. But a basically
working and compiling package is better than simple a word in mail
  "how about we update the package"

This thread is indeed the start of contacting you, and such
an RFS with "moreinfo" and "NMU" is safe from being uploaded
accidentally.