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Debian debates amd64 portDebian debates amd64 portPosted Jul 26, 2004 9:50 UTC (Mon) by piman (subscriber, #8957)In reply to: Debian debates amd64 port by mmealman Parent article: Debian debates amd64 port Rather than becoming a developer, you could have simply submitted a patch to the BTS, prepared an NMU, and asked another developer to sponsor it for you. That would have taken much less time (probably a month at most waiting for a sponsor; I don't know what kind of patch-writing skills you have). Given the level of trust and skill required to maintain Debian packages, 8 months seems more than reasonable. Maybe it's not enough, because my NM process took 8 months, and I've had my share of mistakes.
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Debian debates amd64 port Posted Jul 27, 2004 20:18 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] Yeah, right. That would almost certainly not work. For some weird reason, NMUs are frowned upon. It's as if you're insulting the original packager, even if all you're doing is fixing year old bugs. The end result is a whole lot of discussion about who owns what and very little forward progress. Debian is in serious pain right now.I'd love to see Debian encourage NMUs, especially if a bug is older than, say, 1 month. This way, packages wouldn't fester quite so bad.
Debian debates amd64 port Posted Jul 29, 2004 21:04 UTC (Thu) by andrel (guest, #5166) [Link] The release team have been encouraging NMUs.
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