Hi,

We (Bas Wijnen, Lucas Nussbaum) worked on a Debian Enhancement
Proposal[0] on the policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads
(NMUs).

The main purpose of the proposal is:
* to explicitely allow fixing bugs of severity lower than important in
NMUs.
* to encourage the use of the DELAYED queue.
* to try to encourage a responsible approach for NMUs, instead of an
approach based on strict rules.

This DEP is available on the Debian Wiki[1].

When commenting on this DEP, please create sub-threads on debian-devel@
(changing the Subject) for each point you raise, and avoid discussing
several points in the same mail.

Have a nice flamewar^Wdiscussion!

Lucas Nussbaum and Bas Wijnen

[0] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep0/
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/NmuDep

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:42:59PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote:

"The version must be the version of the last upload, plus +nmuX, where X is a
counter starting at 1."

The above was added to the DEP to "match dch" but dch only uses that format
for native NMUs as per the earlier discussion on -devel[0]. Is this an
intended change to usk +nmuX for all NMUs or should the wording be updated to
reflect current behavior?

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On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, James Vega wrote:

I want a consistent versioning scheme, thus +nmuX for both native and
non-natives packages.

Consider this a wishlist bug against devscripts. :-)

Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog

Hi,

thanks for starting an initiative to make NMs more useful and accepted!
For now I just have two procedural remarks.

On Thursday 24 April 2008 21:42, Bas Wijnen wrote:

Why isnt the second URL http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep1/ ? :)

And secondly, if you had included the actual text in the mail, everybody could
reply with proper quoting and I could also read it now.

regards,
Holger

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Raphael Hertzog debian.org> writes:

And the Developer's Reference.

I do recommend actually filing said wishlist bugs, of course. :)

Bas Wijnen wrote:

Hi,

I made a very minor modification on the Wiki page [1] to *emphasize* the
fact that XY in +debXYuZ for a security upload for testing should have X
be the same as for stable, even if it is already known that testing will
become a new major release. Without the emphasis I could see people
glossing over this point.

I hope the change is OK; if not, of course feel free to revert it.

best regards,

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On 25/04/08 at 10:59 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:

DEP0 doesn't force use to use dep.debian.net directly. We prefered to
work on the DEP using the wiki, and it's also easier to track changes.
It will be moved dep.debian.net once it's approved.

On 25/04/08 at 11:15 -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:

James Vega wrote:

I have found that NMUing native source packages is a bit tricky, as in,
what is the consensuous regarding this increment? Where to increment?

I hope I made myself understood, but I am at loss, not enough caffeine
in bloodstream.

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On Tuesday 29 Apr 2008 3:02:34 pm Amaya wrote:

Hi,

someversion+nmu1, someversion+nmu2 for example see, bzflag package. It is
at 2.0.10.20071115+nmu1 right now.

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