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The Debian LaTeX maintainer was essentially harassed out of the project by the Anti-Harassment Team.

This is 1) irrelevant, he was not the maintainer for latexmk (in fact he did some non-maintainer uploads very recently for it to update it to the latest version), and 2) not true, he was not "harassed out of the project," he was removed by formal action. I read "harassed out" as "pressured into quitting" or something. He didn't quit under pressure; his account was removed. (And he's still a Debian Maintainer, same status as me.)

> he was not "harassed out of the project," he was removed by formal action.

Ah, yes, the standard bureaucratic cover for abuse: retroactively justify it with formal committee action, by asking people to submit examples of badthink and badspeak from years ago:

		2012: 1 email
		2013: 7 emails
		2014: 5 emails
		2015: 1 email
		2016: 0 emails
		2017: 2 emails
		2018: 2 emails

Nothing wrong with that at all. Nothing to see here! Debian's a perfectly healthy project. Continue on your way.

Source?

The horse's mouth: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/12/msg00032.htm...

Downvoters: If you're honest, then do your homework instead of downvoting. If you're dishonest, and you're trying to cover it up, shame on you--you're as bad as the abusers in Debian.

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