Re: why package Signal in Debian?
Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> 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 (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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