[Timshel]

The issue is that the author had been contributing for 2 years.

Debian is considering reverting prior to his involment or switching, cf: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068024

[seba_dos1]

They do that out of caution, not because that's what needs to be done. No reason to panic if your distro doesn't go as far.