I have a question as a random passerby.
Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
libcupsfilters2-common is part of the new CUPSv3 family of packages, but this is far from being ready to use.
Nowadays nobody should use libcupsfilters2 at all.
If libcupsfilters2 is not ready for end user systems and is only to play with right now, wouldn't it be better to keep it in experimental? Having it migrate to testing and hence be slated for the next stable release sends the message that applications can use it and it will be supported for the release lifecycle. It's not very helpful to have this package in the next stable release if people aren't actually supposed to use it.
A preliminary search suggests that, with the new GTK 4 upload, there probably won't be any reverse build dependencies on this package besides cpdb-backend-cups, so maybe the FTP masters would be willing to remove this package from testing and unstable after an experimental upload is made? If that isn't possible, a crude hack that gcc-snapshot and like packages use is to keep a high-severity bug report intentionally open to prevent migration to testing.