Hi, I'm seeking advice on dealing with uncooperative maintainers. I had some trouble trying to cooperate with Ryan Murray to fix bugs in his packages. On 1 Aug 2004, I sent a wishlist bug report to the 'esound' package, with an attached patch that fixed the problem. I noticed that Ryan is not actively maintaining this package, so I informed him that I intended to NMU it in case no activity from his part happened in 7 days. On 9 Aug 2004 (8 days later), with no response from him, I NMUed esound with my patch. He inmediately came back from MIA-ness and sent me a private mail basicaly telling me that my NMU wasn't appreciated, and that it was a waste of time in cycles for the buildds. Roughly 12 hours later, he reverted the changes. He didn't tell me he was going to revert them whatsoever. He just uploaded and I casualy noticed about it while looking at the incoming queue: > esound (0.2.29-2) unstable; urgency=low > * Instead of using select() for OSS, use SNDCTL_DSP_GETOSPACE. > * Revert changes in unsanctioned NMU. > -- Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org> Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:28:59 -0700 Also, he removed all trace of my upload in the debian/changelog file. What am I supposed to do on this? Bring the issue to the technical committe? Speak with the DPL? (As the tech ctte documentation suggests). I'll appreciate any constructive feedback on this. _PLEASE_ note that in this mail I'm only describing _FACTS_, not opinions. So before you start your attempt at justifying Ryan's behaviour, think twice and send it to /dev/null, where it belongs. -- Robert Millan (Debra and Ian) (Gnu's Not (UNiplexed Information and Computing System))/\ (kernel of *(Berkeley Software Distribution))
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