[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] [Resend] [RFC] nginx packaging refactor

[Aron Xu]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 1:17 AM M. Zhou <lumin at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I quickly went through your changes. I think the motivation behind the series
> of changes makes full sense in terms of improving packaging quality.
> But we need to hear the nginx maintainers' opinion before making the next step.
>
> And I saw your RFS request on debian-mentors at l.d.o ...
> You may want to go through the standard ITS process as per devref:
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging
> instead of directly submit an RFS.
>
> Note, ITS works even if the original maintainers are too busy to respond your RFC.
> My suggestion is to separately submit an ITS bug, and append the ITS bug to
> your RFS request as additional info, and tag the RFS as moreinfo:
>

I don't think the reporter is intended to do package salvaging so it
doesn't require an ITS report.

My understanding is that the reporter would like to ask nginx
maintainers to review and possibily ack his patchset to nginx about
how to handle third-party modules, :)

Regards,
Aron