On 9 Jul 2014 00:33, "Rahul Sundaram" metherid@gmail.com wrote:
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
Actually over on the debian-project list after the technical committee had decided on systemd there was a call from someone for a GR overriding this but it failed to get enough support to be called to vote.