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Re: Bug#692327: libotr: Please provide libotr2



On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 02:17:05PM +0100, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> Noted. The package was in experimental for several weeks and got zero
> attention. My general understanding is that nobody looks at
> experimental anyway.

I have a lot of sympathy with this point, personally. OTOH I've just made an
upload to unstable for a package I wish to have a freeze exception that I would
never have predicted I'd need one for. You just can't guess.

> Another part of the issue was upstream's will to have it in Ubuntu as soon as
> possible. Ubuntu autosync doesn't fetch from experimental.

No sympathy here. That's Ubuntu's problem! Let's not knack our distro for the
sake of another.


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