The Debian maintainer is probably a volunteer. Can we not troll people who make Debian and Foss possible?
The KeePassXC people are also volunteers and dealing with the fallout of this decision.
True, but let them settle it without turning a few thousand people against one person.
To be fair, it looks like the debian maintainer started the unfriendly discourse by calling the work of other FOSS devs “crap”
Everyone needs to chill out, otherwise we have another potential XZ social engineering attack
It would be catastrophic for something like keepass to have a malicious maintainer take over
You have a point to some degree, yet I still think it is defensible to make this post. He majorly altered software
- downstream
- against user expectations
- for somewhat spurious reasons
- seemingly quite ad-hoc
He then went on to defend that decision in a less-than-graceful way before announcing there will be a second, new package.
But, to make it clear: I certainly don’t approve of hate directed toward him and I don’t have a personal issue with him.
