Proposal: move byobu (and run-one) to universe

[Dan Streetman]

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 3:41 PM Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 02:55:43PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> > On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 11:22 AM Paride Legovini <paride at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi -devel,
> > >
> > > The status of src:byobu appears to be less than ideal, and this has been
> > > the case for several cycles now. I think we should consider moving it
> > > from main to universe in kinetic. The general feedback from the Server
> > > Team about this proposal is positive. We are not aware of anything
> > > specific that could be broken or degraded by the change, however we'd
> > > like to hear feedback from other developers and users before proceeding.
> > > This is also tracked in [0].
> >
> > just for clarification, besides being installed by default on servers
> > (due to being seeded in ubuntu-server) the only other effect that
> > demoting the package from main to universe would have is that the
> > server team would no longer monitor its LP bugs, right?
>
> No, because the package is available in main for a supported release
> (Ubuntu 22.04) the server team would need to continue to monitor its LP
> bugs (by being subscribed to the package) until the last supported
> release that included the package in main is out of standard support.
> This way they can catch and resolve any serious issues with the package.

so the only practical effect of the demotion (besides the server team
ending their package bug monitoring in 5+ years) would be it is not
installed by default on servers?

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