[Python-apps-team] Bug#868049: Intent to NMU: pelican/3.7.1+dfsg.1-1

[Ben Finney]

On 08-Aug-2017, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Ben Finney <bignose at debian.org> wrote:
> > If there is no substantive objection before my evening today (Tue
> > 2017-08-08 UTC+10:00), I will do a Non-Maintainer Upload of the
> > release I have prepared, incorporating the patches to fix these
> > bugs to allow the package to remain.
> 
> NACK from maintainer.

ACK. I will not make the NMU release described above.

> Shipping a broken theme by default would be a disservice to our
> users (yes, I consider replacing social media images in the default
> theme with nondescript images to be completely broken behaviour for
> end users of the package). I'd much rather see the "notmyidea" theme
> removed from the package (which is probably what I'll end up doing
> to fix #868047), or pelican removed from the archive entirely.

Okay, I would rather act to see the package remain in Debian Buster as
free software, but I'm happy that you have a plan to bring it back.

Let me know if you'd like any particular help from me. For now, I'll
leave it to you as maintainer.

Thank you for responding to my somewhat urgent call on this :-)

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Ben Finney <bignose at debian.org>
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