Please. Could someone share some snapshots of the contentious issue so we know what we are talking about.
Thanks. Vincent Cheng escrebeu: > Hi Vincent, > > Debian supertuxkart maintainer here; I'm also cc-ing the Debian Games > team along with this reply. Please keep me cc-ed as I'm not subscribed > to debian-women (thanks to pabs for letting me know about this on > IRC). > > I haven't actually taken a look at upstream's latest release yet, so > I'm writing this without having verified your concerns. I will, > however, respond to the following bit: > > > Debian still packages STK 0.8 (which doesnt have Sara iirc) but it > > will eventually package 0.9. IMHO the offending materials should be > > stripped off from the tracks if possible (the tracks are specified as > > xml file so removing mark should works in most case). > > I do not want to carry this forever as a patch in Debian; along with > the added maintenance burden (however little it may be), this is also > something that really should be dealt with and fixed upstream. If > these allegations are true, I'd rather just not package and upload STK > 0.9 entirely. > > Vincent, have you tried approaching the upstream developers and > starting a discussion with them with the goal of getting this fixed > upstream? I appreciate that you've brought your concerns about STK to > debian-women for discussion, but as maintainer I frankly do not know > what to do with this, and what you expect me to do as a downstream > package maintainer. This really sounds like an issue that needs to be > addressed at its source upstream, ideally with an amicable discussion > and agreement with all involved parties upstream. so a repeat of the > same issue can be avoided in a future upstream release. I'm not > particularly keen on mediating this discussion, purely because it's of > a non-technical nature; when faced with a non-technical issue in a > package I maintain, I usually just defer it to someone else > appropriate, i.e. I typically just defer to ftpmasters for an > authoritative yes/no whenever I'm faced with a legal issue or > complication in one of my packages. This being the first time I've > ever had a bug report alleging racist/sexist material in a package I > maintain, I don't know how to proceed. > > Regards, > Vincent > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/caczd_tatf0ktxhm7kl+ngqc674y2js+hwhsaqdz68w208fe...@mail.gmail.com -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150430061319.GD24618@localhost
