SoylentNews

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Recent voting changed the traditional Debian way of public voting, and it is causing some ripples [lwn.net]:

The Debian project has been voting on a general resolution [soylentnews.org] that would allow secret voting on future issues. The results have been posted [soylentnews.org] in unofficial form, and the winner was "proposal B": "Hide identities of Developers casting a particular vote and allow verification". One might think that closes the discussion, but Debian project leader candidate Felix Lechner is questioning the election [soylentnews.org] and calling for it to be redone — something that the Debian constitution lacks provisions for.

The weird Easter Egg, "apt-get changelog dpkg" shows:

dpkg (1.21.7) unstable; urgency=medium

    - The “Social Contract §3: We will not hide problems”
        and “Persuasion through bullying and abuse” release. -
...
  -- Guillem Jover Fri, 01 Apr 2022 02:27:33 +0200

dpkg (1.21.6) unstable; urgency=medium

    - This also clears a bullying NMU. -
...
  -- Guillem Jover Tue, 29 Mar 2022 11:56:58 +0200

One could be April's Fools, but the other? Which [debian.org] was the "bullying NMU" (Non Maintainer Upload) that had to be cleared? Was there a "Social Contract §4: Our priorities are our users and free software." release when they decided to focus in easier job for maintainers at the cost of users getting vendor lock in?

Tl;dr: Any idea what is going on in the Debian project?

Original Submission