Re: BROKEN! DO NOT UPGRADE
On 08/09/25 4:04 pm, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 11:57:04AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>> bluca is neither willing nor capable of that and must therefore be
>> removed as a maintainer
>
> The first thing is to go ahead and step up to offer co-maintaining
> systemd. bluca has stated multiple times that he is overworked. His
> erratic decisions¹ are hurting the package and Debian.
>
> I think that a package THIS important MUST not be maintained by a
> single individual, if only because of the bus factor.
As such, the d/control file of that package does list *6*
uploaders/co-maintainers, which (to me) appears more than
enough for systemd package.
However, d/changelog suggests that bluca has been the only one uploading
this package since later half of 2022 (with an exception of couple of
drive-by uploads by Michael).
This leaves me a bit confused: Is the Uploaders entry in d/control
reflecting the bus factor of this package accurately?
> Sadly, I cannot contribute since I have had trouble with systemd
> upstream, and my name popping up inside the package is going to alienate
> the already difficult upstream.
I think bluca is also one of the upstream maintainers for this package. If
you could coordinate with him, it may not be as bad as you are thinking it
to be. But this is just a thought (and suggestion).
Best,
Nilesh
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