Excepting a General Resolution or a Policy violation, every accredited Debian Developer can do whatever the heck they feel like in their own packages.
This can pose problems. Boccasi steamrollered, but relatively politely.
This can pose problems. Boccasi steamrollered, but relatively politely.
People were more interested in bitching about edge cases where maintainers / projects / authors were doing things they should not have been doing in the first place than they were about addressing those issues, so he addressed them himself.
The man literally put up when others would not shut up.
But perhaps 30% could be in what you call "edge case", since your statistics is entirely based on yourself.