On: Moreutils

[moe]

Welcome to Debian politics.

Where boneheads like Joey get to block trivial fixes for decades (5 years and counting in this case). The project really needs a better process to terminate 'lame' maintainers.

[ole_tange → moe]

Just for completeness https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=518696 Had parallel been packaged at that time (Mar 2009), it would have pre-empted the parallel in moreutils (which was added June 2009).

[dredmorbius → moe]

My point is that Joey is not in general a bonehead. That's part of what makes this all the more disappointing.

He's no longer the package maintainer, which should make the split more viable.