Re: How should we deal with bad maintainers?

2014-03-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:21:06AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: assume that a package maintainer is active but is doing a bad job regarding our standards (things like ignoring problems in stable, breaking backwards compatibility for no good reason,

Re: How should we deal with bad maintainers?

2014-03-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 30/03/14 at 19:34 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:21:06AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: assume that a package maintainer is active but is doing a bad job regarding our standards (things like ignoring problems in

How should we deal with bad maintainers?

2014-03-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello Neil Lucas, assume that a package maintainer is active but is doing a bad job regarding our standards (things like ignoring problems in stable, breaking backwards compatibility for no good reason, not packaging new upstream versions in unstable, etc) and is not really cooperative (closing

Re: How should we deal with bad maintainers?

2014-03-28 Thread Gergely Nagy
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: assume that a package maintainer is active but is doing a bad job regarding our standards (things like ignoring problems in stable, breaking backwards compatibility for no good reason, not packaging new upstream versions in unstable, etc) and is not