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Re: I am still on the keyring. With my old key.



2005/11/20, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>:
> I suspect and hope the DPL try to reason with the people in question
> first, before the DPL wields his authority and push the current holder
> of privileged positions aside, as a power struggle with the overworked
> people in these privileged key positions could become ugly.  Do you
> really want the DPL to push the keyring maintainer aside and give the
> task to someone else?  Do you believe it would work, with the
> ftp-masters and the Debian system administrators on both sides of such
> conflict?

"push aside"? There's no rule that says there can be only one. Yes,
replacing someone could become ugly, but providing additional hands
can't be considered bad, can it?

Anyway, ISTM that removing keys from a keyring is much more important
than adding new ones, right?

> I seriously hope the non-elected people blocking and slowing down
> several important processes in Debian soon realize that there is a
> problem and that it might be best for them to solve it by stepping
> aside or allowing new people to help them with the tasks.

I hope there is more going on in the background that we are not seeing...



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