OpenMandriva's accused repo wrecker says it wasn't sabotage – it was a message

Ex-contributor claims he wasn't a rogue admin, hadn't left the project, and never intended to harm the distro

The contributor accused by OpenMandriva of sabotaging its Linux distribution says he deliberately deleted repositories and obsoleted packages, but insists the project has badly misrepresented both his motives and his role.

Last week, OpenMandriva accused Davide Beatrici of abusing administrative privileges to delete parts of the project's GitHub repositories and publish an empty package in its Cooker development branch that obsoleted GNOME and COSMIC packages. The distro described the incident as an attempted "distribution sabotage" and said it had considered legal action.

Beatrici doesn't dispute carrying out the changes, but he disagrees with much of OpenMandriva's account.

"Let me state right away that this was by no means a 'sabotage'; I'm not the kind of person to do something like that," Beatrici told The Register. "The objective was not to harm the...

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