On 9 Jul 2014 00:33, "Rahul Sundaram" <metherid@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is not random Debian maintainers.  This is the Debian technical committee empowered with making such decisions.  A GR (General resolution) is the only way to override the tech committee and that requires some Debian maintainer to propose one and so far noone has done so
>

Actually over on the debian-project list after the technical committee had decided on systemd there was a call from someone for a GR overriding this but it failed to get enough support to be called to vote.