There seem to me some conflicting accounts and perspectives. Boccassi took the "broken by design" snipe in reply to his patch as "this is going to get rejected", which I don't find completely unreasonable. There were also some other more technical comments from other people, which other people took as "this could get merged, if it gets addressed", which is not unreasonable either.
Yes, the CTTE can force a merge, but that's a pretty uncomfortable situation for everyone – at the very least it's going to be an uphill battle. I wouldn't just dismiss it as a "non-issue".
I spent a good time reading up on some of the mailing list threads this afternoon as I thought it's an interesting social problem, but with a long simmering conflict that's been going on for years it's hard to really get to the bottom of things. No one here seems especially constructive, but it's hard to really get to the bottom of the full context of all of this. I can definitely understand people's lack of motivation in writing fully polished patches if the dpkg maintainer is constantly railing that it's all "broken by design" though.
Yes, the CTTE can force a merge, but that's a pretty uncomfortable situation for everyone – at the very least it's going to be an uphill battle. I wouldn't just dismiss it as a "non-issue".
I spent a good time reading up on some of the mailing list threads this afternoon as I thought it's an interesting social problem, but with a long simmering conflict that's been going on for years it's hard to really get to the bottom of things. No one here seems especially constructive, but it's hard to really get to the bottom of the full context of all of this. I can definitely understand people's lack of motivation in writing fully polished patches if the dpkg maintainer is constantly railing that it's all "broken by design" though.