On 8/30/05, Robert McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raul Miller wrote: > > It's not clear to me why this was assigned to the technical committee.
> The problem is that the maintainer refuses to concede that his packages > are in violation of Debian's shared library packaging policy, or > believes that this policy is incorrect or somehow irrelevant to his package. That's definitely a problem, but it's not a technical problem. > I was hoping that the technical committee might be able to discern which > of these is the case, and then decide which elements need to be fixed > and by whom, in order that the adoption of SILC-based software may > continue in Debian. If you had posed this as a technical question, we might have been able to do something, but: > However, it now seems that he's willing for someone else to maintain the > package (see his mail on #273871), so it might be in order to orphan the > package and close this technical committee bug. You're probably right that it's best to simply close this bug. Would you like to do the honors? Thanks, -- Raul