How to ask for introducing a new package into main?

[c.buhtz at posteo.jp]

Dear Seth,

thanks for your reply.

On 2023-01-21 02:40 Seth Arnold <seth.arnold at canonical.com> wrote:
> The bug would be opened on the source package of whatever package
> you're trying to promote to main.

Ah! That's the key info missing in my head.

> If the package is in universe,
> that's pretty easy, visit the package page for it:

So would you say that universe and main is something like a stage/stair?
Beside of exceptional cases you have to be in universe before gettin
into "main"?

> If the package isn't actually in Ubuntu yet, it'll take more work. If
> you get the package into Debian unstable, it'll automatically be
> imported into Ubuntu universe by a syncing robot.

That was also new to me that it happens that kind of automatic.
I like that.

I totally misunderstood universe. I thought it was community driven. I
mean "Ubuntu fans" doing the packaging there.

> Why specifically main? What's wrong with universe?

This wish came from my wrong picture of universe I think.

Thanks a lot for broadening my horizons. ;)

Kind
Christian