I disagree as an Arch user; Eli is more than just some packager, he does a metric boatload of work for the distro and has his fingers in many pies. He is speaking from a position of knowledge and experience and replying with skilled authority on the subject matter.
I make no value proposition on his work, knowledge or the extents of his role. I simply quoted the role he mentioned in the link, which makes no mention of his other contributions to Arch.
Regardless, I find his tone and attitude quite condescending to the Debian maintainer.
But is he wrong, even if true? A Debian maintainer popped in and basically said "we're doing nothing wrong" while there's discreet evidence to the contrary, Debian has altered the upstream code based on the opinion of one person and disabled features of the software.[1]
