From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:40:50 +0400 From: Alexey Tourbin To: ALT Linux Team development discussions Message-ID: <20100825154050.GA10107@altlinux.org> References: <20100824071559.E5BBA27C603A@ssh.git.altlinux.org> <20100824112942.GB21786@altlinux.org> <20100824121318.GA11045@altlinux.org> <20100825043625.GB14313@altlinux.org> <20100825061744.GA29427@altlinux.org> <20100825063622.GC14313@altlinux.org> <20100825095256.GB11526@altlinux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100825095256.GB11526@altlinux.org> Subject: [devel] debspeak considered harmful (was: packages/ncurses) X-BeenThere: devel@lists.altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: ALT Linux Team development discussions List-Id: ALT Linux Team development discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:40:51 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 01:52:56PM +0400, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:36:22AM +0400, Alexey Tourbin wrote: > > Non-maintainer upload is a debspeak, > > and you should not indicate "NMU" in rpm changelog. > > This is a nonsense, because NMU is a formally defined and > widely accepted term. I feel NMU is less appropriate a term nowadays. NMU stands for an "upload". To an ftp directory. We don't do these things today, do we? Another inappropriate term that comes from Debian is "the incoming". We used to have an "incoming", too. It's just a jargon associated with poor development practices and poor build technologies. Another ground for criticism is that maintainership becomes increasingly blurred - we have ACL, and it tends to include @everybody by default.