Re: Bug#364609: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net> writes:
>
> > Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr> wrote:
> >
> >> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> >>
> >> > I feel uncomfortable acceding to practices I consider unethical,
> >> > and I lack the motivation to fight the ftp masters and the
> >> > project on this issue.
> >>
> >> Can't the technical comittee decide on this and maybe override the
> >> ftp masters' decision?
> >
> > Good question. I suppose one would need to ask them, and Manoj said
> > he lacked the motivation to fight. So he won't be doing the asking.
> >
> > This is indeed a loss for Debian if ftp-master hurdles are
> > sufficiently difficult to induce Manoj to quit this great package.
>
> Get a perspective. This does not seem more important than
> <URL:http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200603091144>.
Nor did I say it was more important. Just one more nail in the coffin
by the ftp-masters, judging by your added information.
They should have simply accepted his upload.
Peter
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