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Re: unauthorized upload of xfree86 4.3.0-1 to unstable



On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:31:52PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> 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.

None of which is relevant. The argument advanced was "trust to upload
packages (be a developer) is not affected by trust in other
matters". Historically, trust in general *has* been a significant
factor.

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