From 3955ed79fcbb9d1bd265afce2333c859e407c214 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 03:55:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] NMUs: Talk about `the maintainer [having] an opportunity to comment' rather than suggesting specifically that the NMUer should contact the maintainer. Also slightly improve the wording of that paragraph. --- debian/changelog | 3 +++ pkgs.dbk | 15 +++++++-------- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index aebadfd..4c38da2 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ developers-reference (3.4.14~~iwj) UNRELEASED; urgency=low duplicates of each other). The effect is that people are no longer discouraged by dev ref from NMUing directly to DELAYED-10 even if the bug has only just been discovered. + * NMUs: Talk about `the maintainer [having] an opportunity to comment' + rather than suggesting specifically that the NMUer should contact the + maintainer. Also slightly improve the wording of that paragraph. -- diff --git a/pkgs.dbk b/pkgs.dbk index 76ad7d3..93c3b24 100644 --- a/pkgs.dbk +++ b/pkgs.dbk @@ -2012,14 +2012,13 @@ many people will be very unhappy about it. - - -If the maintainer is usually active and responsive, have you tried to contact -them? In general it should be considered preferable that maintainers take care -of an issue themselves and that they are given the chance to review and -correct your patch, because they can be expected to be more aware of potential -issues which an NMUer might miss. It is often a better use of everyone's time -if the maintainer is given an opportunity to upload a fix on their own. +If the maintainer is usually active and responsive, has there been an +opportunity for them to comment? In general it is preferable that +maintainers take care of issues themselves, and that they are given +the chance to review and correct patches, because they can be expected +to be more aware of potential issues which an NMUer might miss. It is +often a better use of everyone's time if the maintainer is given an +opportunity to upload a fix on their own. -- 2.30.2