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> No special pleading. No whining. No excuses. > No buts and no exceptions. No "middle ground".

This sounds strong to me. Not to be provocative since I am not familiar with the mailing list, I would like to ask is it common to communicate this way in this Debian community? Is it effective to push things moving forward?

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I think it's perfectly reasonable. Package maintainers are stomping their feet and huffing about making a change that is in everyone's best interest. Why shouldn't the distribution set strong guidelines and enforce them?

Too much is often sacrificed at the altar of backward compatibility. Move forward and leave the laggards behind.

I will never forget how Debian hijacked the real ffmpeg with their hobbled version until some point later [1]. Pretty disgusting. While I unfortunately use this distro fairly solely, I will move to other options at some point. Debian may be free but often it proves to be too expensive.

Edit: reference.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9477115/what-are-the-dif...

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