[Debian-med-packaging] Your NMU of pirs

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Adrian,

I admit I'm a bit bored by your attempt to turn my intention to give a
hint that I consider your NMU as unsual into some argument whether I'm a
lazy maintainer or not.  Thus I'll stop here and do more productive
things.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 06:18:21PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 01/16/2017 06:12 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> >> If I see a maintainer on this list with the statement "all packages", I assume
> >> they mean it that way. If you prefer to be contacted beforehands, please put
> >> a comment on that page explicitly stating that.
> > 
> > As far as I know an NMU should at least fix a bug.  As I tried to
> > express I'm *personally* fine with what you did.  However, as you
> > noticed the conflicting uploads could have been avoided and I might add
> > to this page that the NMUer should try to get the changes commited to
> > VCS (where ACLs are set to grant any DD commit permissions).
> 
> The conflicting upload happened, because I was a bit tired. Human error.
> 
> I already saw that -5 was uploaded, but accidentally picked -4 for the
> source to work on.
> 
> >> Besides, it's not really acceptable to have a package in an FTBFS on release
> >> architectures for such a long time, really.
> > 
> > If you know a solution for this kind of problem documenting it in BTS is
> > the traditional way to go.  The Debian Med team is quite quick to upload
> > packages with patches applied.
> 
> Come on, this fix was super-trivial and incredibly obvious due to build
> log, yet you didn't even bother to fix it in the already fifth revision
> of the package. I don't consider this good practice.
> 
> And I already asked on #debian-med and the answer was "This is Andreas'
> package, you have to ask him."
> 
> > I just want to avoid two things:
> > 
> >    * competing uploads
> >    * changes missing in VCS to avoid regressions
> 
> Here's one thing from my side as a buildd maintainer:
> 
> Waste of computation power for packages that are build without producing
> a sensible output. This is really annoying, especially when I'm paying
> for the electricity myself.
> 
> If you have issues with packages not building, please ask. But don't
> upload over and over again with the attitude "I care about x86 only."
> 
> > Thanks for your fix anyway
> 
> You're welcome.
> 
> And, btw, it's Adrian, not John.
> 
> Thanks,
> Adrian
> 
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