Re: negative vote for maintainer Michael Gilbert

[Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Sergiusz Pawlowicz wrote:
> Asking about _what did i do_ also fits into point c). My question was
> about last three years of package maintainer, not my three days here.
> About bug #516394 - it cannot be patched, as nothing is broken. A
> package maintainer had enough time to convince the Security Team they
> are wrong. But it fits in the point e) - it requires strong effort, as
> the Security team seems to be immune to arguments, similar to the most
> of discussant in this thread.

I wonder if your particular problems couldn't be solved simply via apt-pinning?
http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

You seem to need to be able to pin xpdf from testing and djbdns from
unstable.  Done.

Best wishes,
Mike