J Mo <jm...@jmomo.net> writes: > This new maintainer has caused a lot of problems because they, > admittedly, don't use the package themselves and don't really > understand it.
This is, I think, one of the better reasons to intervene. If there are willing maintainers among the actual user community for a package, those people have a somewhat stronger claim to the package maintainer role than people who are not in the user community of that package. > Anyone have any advice? People will naturally care about various things in this matter. Be aware of the natural tendency for such interactions to escalate, and continue to instead seek dispassionate discussion of problems. Keep calm. Always leave space for a graceful response. Seek discussion and consensus. Be guided by what's best for the user community of that package, the user community of Debian as a whole, and of software freedom generally. -- \ “What's another word for Thesaurus?” —Steven Wright | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney
