On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:59:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:24:07AM -0400, Michael Stone écrivait: > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:00:36AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > > Who has the authority to remove a package in this state, and forestall > > > angry complaints should the maintainer come back some years in the > > > future? Well, the QA committee clearly does. > > > > Not really. The QA committee was never given any such authority. > > The QA committee was designed to play such a role. Sorry.
The committee may have been designed that way, but it never had any more authority to act than any maintainer already has. (IOW, a QA committee action would be no less subject to bitching & second guessing than a consensus decision on [EMAIL PROTECTED] or even an arbitrary decision by an ftp archive maintainer.) -- Mike Stone
