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Re: [rain1 at airmail dot cc] Delete abortion joke
On 05/07/2018 02:54 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> Part of why I have repeatedly refused to back my patch out is to
>> stand for the principle that the GNU Project Leader_shouldn't_
>> have ex officio power to override a consensus decision of the
>> active maintainers of a specific piece of software.
>
> RMS could un-appoint current maintainers, and appoint new maintainers
> who agree with him on this particular issue. So the principle you're
> standing for differs from what could in principle occur. I doubt
> whether it'll come to that, though.
... and if two GNU package maintainers, for the same package, disagree?
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Cheers,
Carlos.