Hi, I might be running on incomplete information, but to me it seems that we had a package hijack over night. Being an uploader and thus part of the team I'm more than just interested in this and would like the parties to speak up here and explain. Here's what I know so far:
Both, Patrick Winnertz and Daniel Baumann ITPed virtualbox at about the same time without knowing that the other ITPed too. I have no idea what Daniel really did on the package. I cannot find him in the changelog file. However, he's listed in one README and in the copyright file with: This package was debianized by Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:33:00 +0100. Please note that the first release which according to the changelog contains work by Patrick and Philipp Hug was released on August 30th. I heard about some work being done during Debconf but have no idea if anything was done between January and June. Anyway, earlier this week Daniel apparently approached Patrick to be listed as uploader and was denied which seemingly led to him doing the upload with this change among others on his own. To me this is clearly a hijack and I'd like to see a very valid reasoning for this behaviour. But he not just added himself, he also changed some packaging stuff and upgraded to a new upstream version. This seems to be done in a hurry as he missed some licensing issues. We now have several files in the archive with the following license: ; ; Copyright (C) 2006-2007 innotek GmbH ; ; innotek GmbH confidential ; All rights reserved Uh, ouch, shouldn't be there, right? That's why I CC ftpmasters. Work is underway to create a valid 1.5.0 package, but there's a reason why we first fixed stuff in the 1.4.0 version. Since this may take another day or two, I wonder whether out admins would like to react and remover this version asap. Michael -- Michael Meskes Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
