[salawat]

And this is why, I won't touch Debian anymore. I get enough BS politics and fief building to deal with elsewhere, and if I really want a Debian package, I'll pop the .deb open, and adopt it to my system conventions.

I'm not sold on Debian's "maintainer knows best" attitude. You are not there to make decisions for the community, you are there to ensure the tools people use and want maintained are.

As soon as you lose sight of the "servant" mentality when sitting in a position of authority is about the time a defenestration is in order. The attitude of the maintainer in light of the obvious interest in that feature in that thread, the GR last year, and the lack of any justification whatsoever on the technical merits of the fix, combined with the gall of asserting the project is maintained is ridiculous. I'm legit angry now. If you can't be arsed to do your job, then stop. Stop detracting from the addition of code required to adapt something to work for a wider user base without good contextual justification, which was not provided.

[tremon]

Fully agreed. There was a time when Debian could pride itself on being "the universal operating system" (for whatever interpretation of that phrase), but too many maintainers seem to have adopted a "my way or the highway" approach to package maintenance. The systemd adoption was a catalyst in that direction, but it wasn't the first nor the only symptom.

[rkyrk]

Totally agree with this viewpoint and why I too have left Debian and all related variants. While Devuan and MX Linux try to use other inint systems, their path will be much harder in the future.