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Bug#1123949: ITS: openconnect

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  Bug#1123949: ITS: openconnect Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2025-12-24 18:20 +0100
    Bug#1123949: ITS Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2026-01-06 13:30 +0100

#1275718 — Bug#1123949: ITS: openconnect

Source: openconnect
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-CC: mtmiller@debian.org

Dear Mike,

First of all, I want to thank Mike for the work he did on OC and
related packages some years ago.

I have tried to contact Mike multiple times privately via email over
the past year or so, and received no answers. I also contacted the MIA
team asking for an MIA check, but also received no answer.

So that leaves this sort of half-ITS, which might not be technically
required as I am already an uploader and de-facto sole maintainer for
the past ~6 years, but nonetheless better to be above board and beyond
reproach. The last time Mike worked on this package was in January
2019 as per tracker.

So in 21 days from now I will upload to remove Mike from the
Maintainer field, and move myself from the Uploaders field to the
Maintainer field, unless an objection from Mike is received by the
14th of January.

Once again, many thanks to Mike for the past work on this and related packages.

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#1277279 — Bug#1123949: ITS

Control: tags -1 wontfix
Control: close -1

A member of the community team, who has never been involved with these
packages, decided to override me as the maintainter concerning some
code changes in unstable. Having failed to convince by arguments,
instead of following the process set up by the constitution with
regards to overruling maintainers, he sent me an email on January 3rd
titled "consider your next action carefully", containing a series of
orders, and not-so-subtly threatening expulsion from the project in
case of noncompliance with these demands - quoting verbatim: "Debian
Accounts Managers have already been made aware of the situation and
are watching closely".

At the risk of stating the obvious, according to its delegation text
(https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/07/msg00004.html)
the community team in theory does not have the power to override
developers. That belongs to the technical committee, which can do so
with a 3:1 majority vote as per article 6.1.4, which has not happened.

Given rules, safeguards and constitutions only work as long as those
wielding real power choose to abide by them, it is clearly not safe
for me to keep working on this package any longer, hence withdrawing
the ITS, and will be shortly removing myself as maintainer.

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