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From: Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>
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Subject: Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy
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On March 3, 2024 6:12:09 AM UTC, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as=2Eeu> wrote:
>Hi Christian,
>
>Am Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 11:48:57PM +0100 schrieb Christian Kastner:
>> On 2024-03-02 23:11, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> > I'm curious why you believe I didn't care=2E I likely would have reve=
rted
>> > my change if I didn't have more urgent matters to attend to=2E
>> > Re-uploading a package just to revert the Maintainer and Uploader is
>> > lower on my priority list than fixing other RC bugs=2E
>>=20
>> To add another perspective: what if reverting is not about "fixing" the
>> package again, but a courtesy or sign of respect towards the person tha=
t
>> was upset by this action=2E Wouldn't that change the priority entirely?
>
>Thanks for pointing this out=2E  I agree I failed here=2E  I hope to not
>fail the same way in future again since in this very case I can't fix
>this any more=2E
>=20
>The lesson I hopefully learned now is that this kind of failures seems
>to put other arguments I gave for a policy change in the shadow at least
>for those team members I would love to reach for a constructive
>discussion=2E

Thanks both for your response and for Christian for doing a much better jo=
b than I managed trying to communicate this=2E

Scott K