Simon McVittie <[email protected]> writes: > Note that if a package exists in unstable, it will usually get copied into > Ubuntu 'universe' for their LTS releases, even if it is unsuitable for > that purpose. experimental might be a better choice for that reason.
Or Ubuntu should stop pulling things into universe that have RC bugs, or at least that class of RC bugs. It feels weird to make Debian upload decisions based on an Ubuntu practice with obvious flaws, and it's easier to find and use packages in unstable. Maybe we can instead help Ubuntu do something more sensible. Do we have a documented way of marking an RC bug as being a persistent blocking bug to prevent a package from entering testing, as opposed to some other transient problem that is expected to be fixed, so that Ubuntu could trigger off of that field? I feel like this isn't the first time something like that would be useful. That said, there may be other release-related reasons that I don't know of that would argue against having a package in unstable that we'll probably never be able to include in a release. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
