I have a question as a random passerby.

Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> libcupsfilters2-common is part of the new CUPSv3 family of packages, but this 
> is far from being ready to use.
> Nowadays nobody should use libcupsfilters2 at all.

If libcupsfilters2 is not ready for end user systems and is only to play with 
right now, wouldn't it be better to keep it in experimental? Having it migrate 
to testing and hence be slated for the next stable release sends the message 
that applications can use it and it will be supported for the release 
lifecycle. It's not very helpful to have this package in the next stable 
release if people aren't actually supposed to use it.

A preliminary search suggests that, with the new GTK 4 upload, there probably 
won't be any reverse build dependencies on this package besides 
cpdb-backend-cups, so maybe the FTP masters would be willing to remove this 
package from testing and unstable after an experimental upload is made? If that 
isn't possible, a crude hack that gcc-snapshot and like packages use is to keep 
a high-severity bug report intentionally open to prevent migration to testing.
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