Hi Norbert, On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:52:16PM +0100, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > * tuomov wrote: > > The package is outdated: please remove or upgrade, and keep > > upgrading even after release of the new static (“stable”) Debian. > > See <http://iki.fi/tuomov/b/archives/2007/03/03/T19_15_26/> for more > > information.
> Upstream of the ion window manager doesn't want to have a development > version in a stable release. > Please remove the packages ion3, ion3-scripts and ion3-mod-ionflux > from etch. Hmm, I note that you've also written in your blog that you're "no longer interested in maintaining the ion2, ion3, ion3-mod-ionflux and ion3-scripts packages". Should I understand that to be an implicit orphaning? If it's your intent to orphan the package, then it seems to me that the "unsuitable in the maintainer's opinion" justification doesn't really apply anymore, does it? And I don't really see any other grounds for removing these packages from the release; an upstream with ignorant ideas about how software should be distributed is not a release-critical bug per se. Sure, maintainers should seek to stay on good terms with their upstreams, and not gratuitously ship packages that are damaging to upstream's reputation; but upstream seems to be biased against stable releases /in general/, and ion3 is a package that was already included in the previous stable release, has a rather wide userbase according to popcon, and I hear nothing but good things about it from other developers who use ion3. So I myself am not inclined to defer to this upstream's idea about what should or shouldn't be included in our stable release, when it seems to me that there's a real argument that this is contrary to the interests of our users. Thus the question: is this your request as a maintainer, or as an ex-maintainer? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
