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Re: It there a way to file a complaint against a package maintainer?

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J Mo <jmomo@jmomo.net> writes:

> This new maintainer has caused a lot of problems because they,
> admittedly, don't use the package themselves and don't really
> understand it.

This is, I think, one of the better reasons to intervene. If there are
willing maintainers among the actual user community for a package, those
people have a somewhat stronger claim to the package maintainer role
than people who are not in the user community of that package.

> Anyone have any advice?

People will naturally care about various things in this matter. Be aware
of the natural tendency for such interactions to escalate, and continue
to instead seek dispassionate discussion of problems.

Keep calm. Always leave space for a graceful response. Seek discussion
and consensus. Be guided by what's best for the user community of that
package, the user community of Debian as a whole, and of software
freedom generally.

-- 
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Ben Finney

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It there a way to file a complaint against a package maintainer? J Mo <jmomo@jmomo.net> - 2016-11-30 00:10 +0100
  Re: It there a way to file a complaint against a package maintainer? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-11-30 00:30 +0100
  Re: It there a way to file a complaint against a package maintainer? Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2016-11-30 01:10 +0100

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