Control: tags -1 wontfix Control: close -1 A member of the community team, who has never been involved with these packages, decided to override me as the maintainter concerning some code changes in unstable. Having failed to convince by arguments, instead of following the process set up by the constitution with regards to overruling maintainers, he sent me an email on January 3rd titled "consider your next action carefully", containing a series of orders, and not-so-subtly threatening expulsion from the project in case of noncompliance with these demands - quoting verbatim: "Debian Accounts Managers have already been made aware of the situation and are watching closely".
At the risk of stating the obvious, according to its delegation text (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/07/msg00004.html) the community team in theory does not have the power to override developers. That belongs to the technical committee, which can do so with a 3:1 majority vote as per article 6.1.4, which has not happened. Given rules, safeguards and constitutions only work as long as those wielding real power choose to abide by them, it is clearly not safe for me to keep working on this package any longer, hence withdrawing the ITS, and will be shortly removing myself as maintainer.
