On Tue, 2023-06-06 at 11:04 +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > I don't think the TC has or should have any authority over dpkg > upstream, but with dpkg being a native package, any implementation of > our decision for the Debian archive is also implemented for dpkg > upstream. And it might be that the dpkg developers would be against > the TC override solely or mostly because of this fact. So possibly > changing that would resolve things peacefully.
Given the Debian project owns dpkg.org, the upstream mailing list is @lists.debian.org, official releases are published on deb.debian.org and so on, I think the Debian project *is* the upstream for dpkg. Ansgar