Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:17:29AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 08:59:51PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > Am Mi, den 28.01.2004 schrieb Branden Robinson um 19:04:
> > > whether any sort of sanction should
> > > take place as a result of these actions, and what standards of procedure
> > > and courtesy we should have in team-maintained packages.
> >
> > In my opinion, and especially as this kind of thing has happened for the
> > first time, there should be no sanction to dstone. If he has lost the
> > XSF's trust, then thats their internal thing to decide - debian as a
> > whole should not. (Not more than his may-be lowered reputation within
> > debian - thats up to every single DD).
>
> This is not and has not been our policy in the past. Consult the
> debian-private archives from 2000, starting in April, at the thread
> subject "Suspension"
That's a different matter whatsoever. We are talking about package
maintenance here, which is what being in Debian is all about. Violating
the DMUP is something completely different than doing something WRT
package management which is not in the Developers Reference.
Michael
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