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Joey Hess Quits Debian

posted by LaminatorX on Saturday November 08 2014, @11:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the resignationd dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/11/msg00174.html

Joey Hess has apparently left Debian after 18 years, stating that the Debian Constitution is leading Debian in "very unhealthy directions".

 
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  • (Score: 1) by mverwijs on Saturday November 08 2014, @11:49PM

    by mverwijs (2457) on Saturday November 08 2014, @11:49PM (#114156)

    He is, amongst other things, the core developer of the Debian Installer....

  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday November 09 2014, @12:25PM

    by VLM (445) on Sunday November 09 2014, @12:25PM (#114252)

    Arguably debhelper is more important

    • (Score: 1) by fritsd on Sunday November 09 2014, @11:22PM

      by fritsd (4586) on Sunday November 09 2014, @11:22PM (#114364) Journal

      I once made a Debian package and debhelper was a godsend. (Not that I'm insinuating mr. Hess is divine BTW).

      If you think about it, the number of different programs in the Debian distribution depends on the number of prospective Debian Developers that didn't find it too complicated, tiresome, or awkward to make a Debian package of some Linux program they liked.

      17567 source packages in "Wheezy" (May 2013).