so long and thanks for all the fish

Who?

Github: Joey Hess

Projects: debhelper, alien, dpkg-repack, debmirror

Date: 11/07/2014

Why?

This long time contributor, who had joined the Debian ecosystem in 1996, announced they were leaving in an email sent to the Debian developers mailing list. Citing the Debian consitution as problematic, they wrote:

If I have one regret from my 18 years in Debian, it’s that when the Debian constitution was originally proposed, despite seeing it as dubious, I neglected to speak out against it. It’s clear to me now that it’s a toxic document, that has slowly but surely led Debian in very unhealthy directions.

Which resulted in multiple packages being orphaned, some of which include:

Note that this also constitutes an orphaning as upstream of debhelper, alien, dpkg-repack, and debmirror.