Request to remove obsolete pending SRUs

Robie Basak robie.basak at ubuntu.com
Mon Dec 11 10:52:58 UTC 2023


On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 10:09:15PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Historically, we have taken the position on the SRU team that SRUs which are
> still in progress when a release goes EOL are not deleted; the rationale
> being that if the package builds more than one binary, and some user has
> installed one or more of those binaries from -proposed, on balance, it is
> better UX for them to be able to apt install other binaries (from the
> -proposed pocket of an EOL release) than to be given an error about
> unsatisfiable dependencies.

I don't remember this reason, but I think we also concluded that we
might as well leave them there so that the ESM team can pick them up if
they want in the future.
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