Only replying to this part, obviously: On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 06:31:31PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > Dealing with Debian Backports isn't fun, BTW, because bugs to Backports > aren't supposed to go to the Debian BTS last I knew. So the package will > have to be modified so that the bug reports go to Backports, and then I'll > need to change my Sieve mail filters in some way to grab the MLMMJ bugs > going to Backports to move them into my Debian-Bugs folder so that I'll see > them. Regardless of not wanting to deal with that complication, I will do > that, because it's what I think is the right thing to do here.
If you are both the uploader of the backport and the package maintainer in testing/unstable, you can run the BTS for such a package in any way you like. Chris