Bug#902227: Krita lead developer has requested Debian cease distributing his software.

2018-06-24 Thread Pino Toscano
tag 902227 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi anonymous user,

In data sabato 23 giugno 2018 17:13:11 CEST, anondeb...@1337.no ha scritto:
> As per the reddit thread 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/8t2zgc/maintainers_matter_the_case_against_upstream/
>  
> (https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/8t2zgc/maintainers_matter_the_case_against_upstream/),
>  the lead developer of Krita has made it very clear that they want Debian and 
> other distributions to cease packaging Krita unless they can always package 
> the latest version. As this is the wish of upstream, I feel that Debian 
> should immediately honor their wishes and stop packaging Krita, so we can get 
> the vastly superior version that is packaged in their appimage/flatpak, what 
> have you.

I do not see any explicit request in that forum thread.

Boudewijn Rempt knowns already who does most of the packaging work for
Debian (which is me), and how to contact me.  Hence, if he thinks there
are issues with the way Krita is packaged and shipped in Debian, he is
very well welcome to contact the Qt/KDE packaging team and/or me
directly.

I will not do changed based on random interpretations of comments in
some random forum on the Internet made by some random/anonymous nick.

-- 
Pino Toscano

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Bug#902227: Krita lead developer has requested Debian cease distributing his software.

2018-06-23 Thread anondebian
Package: krita
Version: 4.0.4
Severity: serious
Greetings!

As per the reddit thread 
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/8t2zgc/maintainers_matter_the_case_against_upstream/
 
(https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/8t2zgc/maintainers_matter_the_case_against_upstream/),
 the lead developer of Krita has made it very clear that they want Debian and 
other distributions to cease packaging Krita unless they can always package the 
latest version. As this is the wish of upstream, I feel that Debian should 
immediately honor their wishes and stop packaging Krita, so we can get the 
vastly superior version that is packaged in their appimage/flatpak, what have 
you.
Regards