On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:49:12PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonas Meurer <jo...@freesources.org> writes: > > On 21/03/2009 Mike Hommey wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 03:58:34PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > >>> Honestly, if you cant deal with listing the Authors/(C) holders - dont > >>> maintain a package. It is not much work to list them. (It might be a > >>> lot of work using the "new" format, but noone *requires* this format, > >>> especially not ftpmaster. It has *no* gain for us at all, we couldnt > >>> care less if you use it or not). > > >> You win. > > >> I hereby orphan xulrunner and iceape. As for iceweasel and webkit, > >> there is a comaintainer on both, so that's up to them. > > > I cannot believe that. Despite deeply appreciating your decision, it > > makes me very sad to see another complex and important package losing > > its competent and valuable maintainer. > > > Joerg, please don't you see the consequences of your harsh discussion > > style? I've quite the feeling that with getting more and more important > > within debian you get more and more authoritarian as well. sorry for > > these straight words. it's not that i wouldn't appreciate your valuable > > work for debian, but please refrain from exploiting the power you got. > > Personally, I'm rather annoyed at both of them. There are people in the > project who are willing to invest time and energy into finding mutually > agreeable solutions and talking through problems, but if people explode as > soon as the discussion gets heated and make drastic decisions before > anyone even has a chance to mediate, what's the point?
In the context of the current discussion, and in the context of my current work, I *do* have a good reason to explode, *now*. I just started to work on xulrunner 1.9.1, which will require an upload through NEW, and I now know that ftpmasters will REJECT the package on grounds of the debian/copyright file not containing copyright holders names, nor containing precise licensing information per file. And if they wouldn't reject it, then that would be pretty lame double-standards. I'm actually glad it happened now, before I spend tens of hours on that work. I do hope things will change, but until then, don't count on me for anything related to big packages. That will finally give me some time to finish those zfs-fuse packages... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
