[fimbulvetr]

I don't understand why it needs to be so political. IMO, yes, he shouldn't remove it but there are reasonable alternatives such as another maintainer setting up a network-manager-sysvinit package that just includes the script (like git-daemon-sysvinit) or even an entirely new package such as network-manager-sysv containing the same files and the script. Then everyone can be happy - the said maintainer can live on without sysv and those that want sysv can live on with their specialized package.

[raverbashing]

Corollary: The most advanced forms of democracy have the most tendency of descending to something akin to a playground bickering

I think the GR is pretty clear but that doesn't seem to be the 1st time that Debian maintainers act like they own the ball and are going home with it.