On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 03:30:50PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > I was talking about a consensus among the maintainers of the affected > > packages. Even if all but the maintainers of one of the affected > > packages would agree to a solution, there would be no way to implement > > this solution without asking the tech-ctte or (what would be not > > appropriate for this) a GR.
> Wait, really? What happened to respect by maintainers for the > project? "The project" is not "a set of random maintainers who have a filename conflict with you". We have a constitution to *prevent* such decisions being made by a tyranny of the majority of the minority. > What happened to NMUs when a maintainer is stalling work? NMUs are *not* a tool for forcing a maintainer to accept a technical outcome he disagrees with. It's demotivating enough to be overridden, without it coming in the form of a fellow developer taking matters into his own hands. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120501205624.gc5...@virgil.dodds.net
