Rahul Sundaram metherid@gmail.com writes:
This is not random Debian maintainers. This is the Debian technical committee empowered with making such decisions. A GR (General resolution) is the only way to override the tech committee and that requires some Debian maintainer to propose one and so far noone has done so
Apparently the project secretary has a hand in it, and sponsors are needed. So maybe it's not as easy as it seems.
Too bad that the users never get to vote.