Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 25 Feb 1999, James Troup wrote: > > > > > Giving the package maintainers more control over the overrides for > > > their own packages seems a good strategy. Can you tell us why this > > > approach was abandoned earlier? > > > > How about because a certain developer would be free to NMU like it was > > going out of fashion to ``fix'' crushingly urgent priority bugs? > > That's not a reason, is it?
I don't believe it is, either. Martin.