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Re: We have a problem



Hi Patrick,

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 09:28:51AM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote:
> It seems Mr. Ian Learmonth has taken it upon himself to remove "inactive
> uploaders" from the soundmodem package without asking those people if they
> wanted to be removed.  

You have never performed an upload on this package, nor are you mentioned in
the changelog for the package.

Debian Policy §5.6.3 states that this field is to be used to list
co-maintainers of the package. You have not performed any maintainence on
this package nor do I believe you had any intention of doing so.

You are listed as an uploader on a large number of packages in the Debian
Hamradio Maintainers team on which you have never actually performed any
maintainence and this is the larger problem. It makes it difficult to
co-ordinate maintainence of our packages and gives the false impression that
there are those performing active maintainence on the package.

As far as I can tell, you have essentially retired from the project at this
point and should have orphaned your packages.

If you are planning to do active maintainence on the package, then I can
readd you to the Uploaders field on the next upload (I still have to correct
the DEP-5 copyright - though I've done this upload to allow for builds to
work on GNU/kFreeBSD and GNU/Hurd again after the upgrade to the latest
upstream version).

Thanks,
Iain.

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