On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 05:34:02AM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 5/18/21, Jörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff.email> wrote: > > Hello Albretch, > > bitz-server has 4 RC-Bugs[1], which could not be fixed by me. > > No fixes came from the upstream either. > > Therefore the package had to be removed from testing and unstable.
> but I see the packaged listed as "stable" in buster: You're misunderstanding Debian's release process. An individual package is not called "stable" or whatever. "Stable" is a reference to a particular Debian release -- right now, that release is buster, but soon it will be bullseye, and so on. So, there is a bitz-server package *in* a stable release (buster). The word "stable" here means "unchanging". The buster release is frozen in time (sort of), and has what it has. All of the packages in it will stay in it. All of the packages *not* in it will remain *not* in it. All of the non-security, non-major bugs in it will remain in it. The only permissible changes are security fixes and major bug fixes. bitz-server has been removed from testing and unstable, so that it will not appear in the next stable release, because it's not suitable in its current state.
