This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan said: > The position I'm trying to defend is very simple: We have the Social > Contract for a reason, it is our promise to the free software > community. And if the Release Team (or any team) feels we can't stand > to our promises, and needs to override them somehow, this _must_ be > done with the endorsement of the project, not because a few, chosen > ones, decide it unilaterally. Sorry, you have continued to miss the fundamental reality of the situation. The release team has nothing to do with non-free material being in Debian - individual developers do. When members of the glibc team decide that it's better to upload a newer version of glibc to Debian rather than abide by your interpretation of the Social Contract, they are the ones responsible - there are no 'chosen ones' nefariously at work here. If you would propose a GR stating that no non-free material could be uploaded to main, I would have more sympathy with your stance. what you are instead proposing is that individual developers have no responsibility for the crap they upload, and somehow members of various teams are instead supposed to baby sit all uploads and vette them. You do see how that's both nonsense and doomed to failure from the outset, don't you? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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