The initial message immediately suggests going against his wishes and the rest of the thread is about whats good for Debian

Well yeah. This whole thread was started in the Debian bug tracker. Of course the focus is going to be on what’s good for Debian. The fact that jwz showed up immediately means they followed the Debian bug tracker, which begs the question, why would jwz subscribe to that if they didn’t want to be there? It also sets the tone for the whole discussion. Original reporter was whiny, but, like, it was directed at the Debian team, not jwz. jwz chose to insert themselves into the Debian bug tracker discussion, and also chose to be aggressive about it.

If I where in his situation I would tell them to go fuck themselves as well. Its just incredibly disrespectful to the person who did the actual work.

That’s fair, honestly. jwz owes the Debian team fuck all. But the other half of that is that the Debian team tried to work out a middle of the road solution and were met with immediate hostility.

You can’t work with someone who doesn’t want to work with you, so you do what’s best for your project and just move on.