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Re: Policy questions ...

> On 26 Jan 1997, Kevin Dalley wrote:
> > 
> > You definitely should not upload anything without trying to reach the
> > developer, giving at least a week for the developer to respond.  It
> > might be best to contact the maintainer before you spend too much much
> > time on a bug.  When you have a potential fix, contact the
> > developer and inform him/her of the fix.  Give plenty of time for
> > response.  If no response is received, I don't know what you should
> > do.

Hmmmmm. I don't see a problem with uploading packages numbered using the
dot scheme, as per current Policy - this doesn't disrupt the real
maintainers numbering and a diff is supplied as part of the upload.  This
stuff needs doing, and it needs doing now. In a week, I may not have the
time to look at Debian.

On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Vincent Renardias wrote:
 
> I guess the best thing to do is to send a mail to bug-number@bugs.debian.org
> saying "here's the patch that correct this bug:
> <diff follows>"

Some bugs can (and have) been closed immediately. Some have been
reassigned and will be dealt with in due course. I intend to try and clear
the 'trivial' bugs first - these may involve new uploads, but the diffs
will be minimal, e.g. packaging standards issues, bugs in post/pre insts
etc. Where necessary I shall use control@bugs.debian.org to try and
minimise the email traffic, rather than the basic system. Sadly, this
doesn't work for e.g. reassigning un-named bugs to packages, because the
recipient developer isn't notified unless I specifically send them a mail.

> And then if the maintainer didn't to anything after 1 or 2 months, I 
> guess you can say on debian-devel (cc: to maintainer) : "Hey I'm about to 
> take over package piposchmurtz, unless someone objects within 1 week").

1 or 2 months is _WAY_ too long. Some (not many) of these bugs have been
here for nearly 2 years... I do _NOT_ intend on taking over any packages,
except by arrangement with the developer. I will not change names etc in
the package control files, if a release is necessary I will use the
approved numbering system. A lot of these bugs are still here because
no-one is _doing_ anything...

Jon.



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