Hi Mo and Paul,
On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 02:31:19PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 06:21 +0000, M. Zhou wrote:
>
> > the upstream holds a very negative attitude towards debian packaging.
> > https://github.com/explosion/cython-blis/issues/32
>
> I suggest you cease packaging this and anything that depends on it.
>
> The developers reference mentions that packaging software with hostile
> upstream developers is often not a good idea.
>
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/developer-duties.en.html#coordination-with-upstream-developers
>
> "If you find that the upstream developers are or become hostile
> towards Debian or the free software community, you may want to
> re-consider the need to include the software in Debian. Sometimes
> the social cost to the Debian community is not worth the benefits
> the software may bring."
I think I will open an ITP for this package where we gather this
information (I can bounce your mails to the ITP bug once filed if you do
not want to write this again). This way we can document the issue.
I also intend to negotiate this again. While the copyright holders
are
2018 The University of Texas at Austin
2016 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
2018 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
2019 ExplosionAI GmbH
the discussion was done with a single developer - well, looking at the
contributors graphs its the one with the vast majority of commits in
Github. I have not yet experienced this kind of hostility which IMHO
even contradicts the license text of the BSD-3-clause license.
But well, as I said I'll open an ITP and lets collect all relevant
information there.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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