Note: This is a general response, not meant to address rsnapshot specifically.
On Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:24:43 -0400 John Brooks <j...@fastquake.com> wrote: > [...] > And that's about where my ability to contribute usefully ends. My belief My offer to mentor prospective debian maintainers stands. I might not be the bestest teacher, but I can also teach people where to find smarter people to teach smarter things. ;) > that the Debian organization and its contributors are generally > intelligent and sensible leads me to believe that you and the QA team > have good reasons for removing the package, even if I don't understand them. If you want to continue believing this, I encourage you to avoid any open source development, especially WRT distributions. :P Seriously, though... we're all just humans driven by various motives. Although rare, changes like this /do/ sometimes come with malice. Other times it's best of intentions, and sometimes those intentions are flawed. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=964139 https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/22/22398156/university-minnesota-linux-kernal-ban-research https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/16/debian_11/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/debian-8-linuxs-most-reliable-distro-makes-its-biggest-change-since-1993/ ^ one of these clearly intends to do harm [ moving back to rsnapshot ] > [...] > Debian package. The only bug of "serious" severity classification is > this one. But when my uninformed assessment is at odds with an actual > Debian maintainer, I have no choice but to assume that there is an > important factor which I am blind to.<< There are definitely options; I'm just one person with an opinion. It's entirely possible all of my previous reasoning has been permanently fixed and I'm just too jaded to see that. If such a scenario were to be our present case, then it would be very easy for someone else to just hop in, grab this, and maintain (own) it indefinitely (... or until such time it must be retired). ^ This could be you, anyone that commented on this thread, etc. If, however, my $super_notsosecret reasoning still holds water, then... that won't be so easy and it becomes a self-solving problem. >>I understand that it's not your > responsibility to teach me just to satisfy my idle curiosity, so we can > leave it at that. It's actually very difficult for me to not launch into a long-winded rant, so thank-you for prompting me to provide this additional explanation. Cheers, -- Michael Lustfield
