On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 12:45:46PM +0100, Support LRob wrote: > Hello Helmut, > > Thank you for the clear feedback. > > > So from this point of view, unbound should not enable the resolvconf > > hook by default. > ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1125411#17 ) > > So the committee is now declining to overrule a maintainer who actually > changed his mind and agreed with me. This is unreal.
I think there's some confusion here. Helmut has explained that the current state of affairs is ustifiable, but this is not a requirement from the committee that the maintainer retain that behaviour. Where there's ongoing conversation we will express opinions, but in general we won't attempt to impose an outcome on those conversations. Right now I think there's a reasonable argument that the resolvconf behaviour is, well, the entire point of resolvconf. I also understand that having an installed package change the effective behaviour of another package may result in unexpected outcomes, and the very worst case there may be extremely bad. At this stage we've seen a limited discussion from a small set of people, and I think for the committee to actually take action we'd need 1) An opportunity for broader discussion to ensure we have a full set of perspecties to take into account 2) An explicit statement from a maintainer that they will not do anything Until that there isn't really anything to overrule and also there isn't enough information for us to reach a fully informed decision. <snip> > I have no further technical arguments. And kind words are hard to find. > It is absurd that I even have to argue about this. > And even more absurd that a committee can be so disconnected... > from reality. I understand your frustration here, but please remember that Debian is a community project that aims to meet an extremely large range of user needs and requirements. Personally, as someone working in the security industry, I have a lot of sympathy for your position - but right now we do not have enough information to assert that the only way to improve things is to overrule a maintainer. The tone that you've adopted throughout this discussion is not helpful in getting us to the point where we can reasonably say that all relevant stakeholders have felt able to express their position. Debian is fundamentally a collaborative enterprise, and cases where we have to overrule maintainers tend to indicate that that collaborative process hasn't gone as well as it could. Please keep that in mind in future.
