[devel] debspeak considered harmful (was: packages/ncurses)

[Alexey Tourbin]

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.