Anthony Towns wrote:
And whom do the ftp-masters themselves answer to? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Debian is answerable to the public, you know.No, Debian's answerable to its members, which is the "or a vote" option above. The only senses in which Debian's answerable to the public is by people using other distros instead, or getting courts/police/whatever to force us to (not) do things.
Well I should have worded it differently -- seeing as Debian has a "contract" with the community, it has a responsibility to and hence is answerable to the community. By community you mean "global community", "community of users", "community of FTP masters"? Whatever does "members" mean?
Shriramana Sharma.