On Thu, 04 Sep 2025 at 08:45:58 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
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?
Yes ish, for small and non-project-wide values of "documented":
user helmutg@debian.org
usertags NNN + sidremove-ignore
(which is really an instruction to Helmut's semi-automatic RC-buggy
package remover, see e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/1080501)
smcv