Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer

The thing I find strange is that there is any kind of stand-off at all.

Greg K-H and Kay Sievers can preempt Marco's comments by going here:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/udev

Download the diff.gz, applies it to the orig (or upstream tar ball) and see what Marco's rules
are and if they are indeed better.

If we look at it from Marco's (or more generally any Debian maintainer's) point-of-view, he's
already posted his patch in one of the most accessible ways possible: to the web for upstream
to take notice of. Many upstreams do take notice and merge stuff back.

I can already see Greg / Kay's point-of-view from the article, but seriously, I don't
understand the reluctance to examine and, if appropriate, rebut Marco's comments based on
examining his rulesets.