Re: Bug#908681: libsane1: pointless package rename
Hi Laurent!
On 11/6/18 2:09 AM, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> This bug is open for more than a month without any recent reaction from the maintainer, multiple people have asked for the status over the month of October (including mails addressed directly to the maintainer), nothing.
That bug was forced upon the maintainer. He made his decision, others disagreed
and used their positions to push their opinion on him. However, so far I have not
seen any reference to the Debian Policy which grants such a particular right.
> This is/was blocking the migration of some packages to testing (at least one from GNOME, that's why I start caring).
That was not Joerg's fault. He maintained his package with a lot of diligence
while no one else was interested in maintaining this package.
> I felt reading https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908681#99 that some kind of consensus was reached, that was maybe incorrect.
There was no consensus from the maintainer. There were people pushing on Joerg,
you jumping on the bandwagon and forcing the change on him. Again, no justification
with reference to corresponding parts of the Debian Policy.
> Not much more to say here.
So you think it's acceptable to override maintainer decisions without the CTTE
which is supposed to be used in this context? Would you be okay for this to
be done with your packages, too?
> Laurent Bigonville who just spent his last care replying to this mail.
Not sure I understand what you mean?
Thanks,
Adrian
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