[jeroen@wolffelaar.nl: Advice on a certain maintainer]
Nobody wants to comment? Nobody has an idea about how to handle this?
Especially the copyright problems filed in 2002 that haven't had any
maintainer reaction is IMHO a bit problematic, a maintainer should
really do something about at least the legal stuff of his package.
I'd prefer some respected long-time DD gives his opinion/handles this...
--Jeroen
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Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 15:52:41 +0200
To: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Subject: Advice on a certain maintainer
From: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>
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Hi,
When I wanted to use some md5 library for perl, I out of habit did a
maintainer-check on the package... and was a bit disappointed.
I'll let these URL's speak for themselves:
http://jeroen.a-eskwadraat.nl/misc/qa/developer.php?login=mdorman
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=157543
(and quite some others like these)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=110063
(and quite some others like these)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/debian-devel-199902/msg00559.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/debian-devel-199902/msg00560.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/debian-devel-199902/msg00561.html
(not much seems to have changed since)
To his defense, he's really a long-time contributor, and he did an
upload in March. It also seems he has done (according to his own
statements, I did not verify that, but have no reason to doubt it) very
much and very hard work in the past, amongst other w.r.t. dpkg and the
like. I really don't know what to do about this, because of the
above-quoted thread, I'd like your opinion first before burning my
fingers on the issue.
--Jeroen
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