@mvgorcum It's a question for the Debian project I polled other Debian developers on IRC. We already knew upstream's position on this.
Could I have communicated it to them? Sure. Did they abandon IRC years ago? Yes. Well there's some weird Heisenbridge thing but it's WEIRD and nobody has talked to me for years. π€·ββοΈ
I barely have the energy to package new versions, seeking out and engaging with upstream on these grounds on downstream decisions is a tad much.
@juliank @tuxwise @keepassxc I don't run debian testing, so I hadn't run into this yet, but I would certainly have gone to upstream when I saw this breaking change. I would argue that at least doing them the courtesy of a heads up would be the decent human interaction thing. It may have allowed them to join the discussion, and possibly made my life easier as a user, but certainly their life easier. Adversarial packaging is allowed by GPL, but wouldn't that be a last resort?