Important: Non-maintainer release flame!
Joel as you can see from the CC: headers above this email is going out to
more than just yourself. The point(s) I'm making below I consider to be
important to the Debian project as a whole.
As can be seen from bug #23367, you sent me an email to tell me there was
a newer version of gd than the most recent one I had released (as libgd,
libgd-altdev, libgd1g, and libgd1g-dev). In the reply I sent to you I
mentioned that I had only recently become aware of this new versionm and
was in the process of preparing a package of it.
I now see that you have uploaded a non-maintainer release of this new
version to master.debian.org! To be blunt I'm pissed about this...indeed
this is *not* the first time someone has decided to do a non-maintainer
release of one of the packages I've been working on without checking with
me first.
I thought that a non-maintainer release was normally only done where
either a security hole needed to be fixed quickly or where a serious
problem existed with a package that the maintainer had not fixed for some
time.
<rant mode on>
At this point in time I'm seriously considering if I want to remain a
Debian developer if people are going to continue to tinker with and
release updated versions of packages I'm maintaining without contacting me
first.
I know - why don't I decide to do a non-maintainer release of libc6 :-)
At this stage I wondering whether I should drop work on all my packages
(both released and unreleased) and either become just a Debian user or
maybe even move over to a different distribution...
<rant mode off>
Ian, should non-maintainer releases be allowed into frozen/unstable
without checking with the maintainer first?
--
Dermot Bradley
bradley@oldcolo.com, bradley@debian.org
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