On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 04:58:58PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I do not completely agree that this is Canonical's fault. IMHO it is > our fault as well if we do not step in by using the defined ways we have > (Technical Committee) and sort out the situation for the profit of our > users. Allowing *any* maintainer (be it an Ubuntu employee or not) to > block important packages should not happen and I do not think that we > should mix up this situation with Ubuntu relations which might or might > not here one specific reason for the maintainer. But there could be > other reasons as well and we should care for the fact in general instead > of fighting a Debian - Ubuntu flamewar. >
Completely ack. It is not an ubuntu specific problem. It is a problem due to misconception of personal ownership of packages. Core packages should not be in the hand of a single maintainer: this should be mandatory. Blocking maintainers should also be gently changed when they are not able to step down themselves for what ever reason. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
