[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Silent hijacking and stripping records from changelog

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Sylvestre and Alexander (cc Rust team and debian-devel),

Please do not silently hijack packages.

If you would like to take over maintenance for some package, then please
ask. Then I won't bite¹.

And when you do hijack packages²³, then please be respectful and give
credit, by preserving/reviving past contributions in the changelog file.

Kind regards,

 - Jonas

¹ Just like I didn't bite at the accidental hijack in February:

Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2024-02-17 02:20:03)
> Hi Sylvestre,
>
> Quoting Sylvestre Ledru (2024-02-16 19:24:00)
> > I am really sorry but it seems that I made a mistake with rust
> > palette:
> >
> > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rust-palette
> >
> > I didn't realize that it was already uploaded (probably because I
> > uploaded https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rust-palette-derive )
> >
> > Please let me know how to fix this issue :(
> >
> > I needed it for the new version of eza!
>
> Ok, I will try fix that.  I recognize how that confusion could arise (as
> in: I could've easily made the same mistake - and possible did).
>
> Please take a look at related bug#1063779.

And just as I didn't bite when, after ignoring the above mentioned bug
and after my work cleaning up after the February accident, that same
package *again* was hijacked:
https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-rust-maintainers/2024-April/040451.html

Only when you shrugged when my pointing out that second hijack did I
arguably bite:
https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-rust-maintainers/2024-April/040452.html

² This changelog:
https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/r/rust-palette/changelog-0.7.5-1
is missing these entries:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/rust-palette/-/blob/debian/0.7.4.0+dfsg-3/debian/changelog

³ This changelog:
https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/r/rust-lazy-regex-proc-macros/changelog-3.1.0-1
is missing these entries:
https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/r/rust-lazy-regex/changelog-3.1.0-1

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