so long and thanks for all the fish

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Subject: so long and thanks for all the fish

From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 17:04:10 -0400

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It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. Note that this also constitutes an orphaning as upstream of debhelper, alien, dpkg-repack, and debmirror. I will be making final orphaning uploads of other packages that are not team maintained, over the next couple of days, as bandwidth allows. 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. -- see shy jo