[Debian-in-workers] Pending Changes todo for Package Maintainers

[Vasudev Kamath]

Again please don't remove loop from the mailing list.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Muneeb Shaikh <iammuneeb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Vasudev Kamath
> <kamathvasudev at gmail.com> wrote:
>> <snipped for brevity>
>> Some more reivew:
>> fonts-lohit-beng-assamese
>> fonts-lohit-beng-bengali:
>> 1. Unnecessary increment of debian version use dch -e not dch -i if
>> package is not yet in debian. (also for fonts-lohit-telu)
>
> Actually I was confused in incrementing the version number. I asked on IRC
> and Jonas told me to increment. (Perhaps I didn't gave him enough information
> about the package)

Yes you should have told him that package is yet to be uploaded to
Debian. Debian version increment is only when package is already in
Debian and you have done some new modification to your package.
>
>> 2. Package has become NMU, when editing others package use -m switch
>> (dch -e -m) else dch will treat this as nmu
>
> This is again confusing as I was editing bengali, and since I'm not
> the uploader
> I though it would be correct to edit it as NM,

First thing NMU is not for the team maintained package. Whole concept
of Team is reduce burden of individual maintainer if you are busy some
one else from team can do the required stuff. That is the whole reason
of putting team as maintainer and yourself as uploader.

Now coming to point NMU [1][2] can be done only by a DD no one else
(including DM) has right to do a NMU.

This is why we kept on telling new folks wanting to become a member of
debian-in to read newmaint guide and policy guide. And whenever you
get these sort of doubt please ask in mailing list or in irc or you
can read the above documents.


>
> So now I have to decrement the version number and change the
> Maintainer field, right?
>
> I'll do this as soon as I get the reply to the post above.
>

Yes remove the new changelog entry you added I don't think its
required to mention anything about this rename because there are
already 2 entries telling split from ttf-lang-fonts and using new
pkg-fonts naming policy. So no need of any more entries.

Again thanks for all the work :) lets finish these stuffs soon

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/NonMaintainerUpload
[2] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu

Best Regards
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Vasudev Kamath
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