Horrid PR for Debian. The decision is ignorant and capricious and makes Debian seem like a personal toy project instead of a FOSS cornerstone. On top of that the Debian maintainer then responds by calling upstream "crappy".
Said maintainer also does dev work for Canonical. So this probably affects optics for Ubuntu too. Although, speculating charitably, maybe the maintainer knows something we don't about the upstream's security policies.
Debian maintainers are experts at touching things they shouldn't and creating a mess in the process. The worst case, by far, was when they broke the RNG of SSH key generation:
Those guys are out of control and constantly having conflicts with upstream, I'm astounded to see the amount of support I see for debian in this thread.
