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If the bug is real but it's caused by another package, just reassign
the bug to the right package. If you don't know which package it should
-be reassigned to, you may either ask for help on &email-debian-devel; or
-reassign it to <package>debian-policy</package> to let them decide which
-package is at fault.
+be reassigned to, you should ask for help on
+<ref id="irc-channels" name="IRC"> or on &email-debian-devel;.
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Sometimes you also have to adjust the severity of the bug so that it
matches our definition of the severity. That's because people tend to
official package maintainer to make a release of a package. This is
called a non-maintainer upload, or NMU.
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-This sections handles only source NMUs, i.e. NMUs which upload a new
+This section handles only source NMUs, i.e. NMUs which upload a new
version of the package. For binary-only NMUs by porters or QA members,
please see <ref id="binary-only-nmu">.
For buildd uploads (which are strictly speaking also NMUs), please see <ref
If one of your packages has been NMU'ed, you have to incorporate the
changes in your copy of the sources. This is easy, you just have
to apply the patch that has been sent to you. Once this is done, you
-have to close the bugs that have been tagged fixed by the NMU. You
-can either close them manually by sending the required mails to the
+have to close the bugs that have been tagged fixed by the NMU. The easiest
+way is to use the <tt>-v</tt> option of <prgn>dpkg-buildpackage</prgn>,
+as this allows you to include just all changes since your last maintainer
+upload. Alternativly, you
+can close them manually by sending the required mails to the
BTS or by adding the required <tt>closes: #nnnn</tt> in the changelog
entry of your next upload.
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