Can we collaborate with Debian better?

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Sun, May 5, 2024 at 3:12 AM Dima Kogan <dkogan at debian.org> wrote:
> 2. As I just discovered, when Ubuntu rebuilds the archive for a release,
>    packages that FTBFS are silently dropped. There's no bug report on
>    either of the two bug trackers. I'm upstream for a project that has
>    been excluded from 24.04 because of this gap in the process. There
>    really should be a bug report filed, so that the problem can be fixed
>    before the release (what Debian does for their releases). And this
>    should be filed on the Debian bug tracker, if that's where the
>    maintenance happens.

Visit https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mrcal and click "View
publishing history".
Click the drop down arrow next to the most recent Deleted entry. It
says that Matthias Klose deleted the package and it points to a Debian
bug number. That Debian bug was filed by Matthias on that day.

Unfortunately, at that point there was very little time before the
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release and manual work was necessary to fix the bug.

mrcal was caught up in the mass rebuild required for xz-utils
mitigation, which meant that it needed to be buildable or it was not
possible to include it in the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release.

mrcal was uploaded to Debian in February but mrbuild 1.9 and 1.10
weren't uploaded until weeks later, after Debian Import Freeze when
autosyncs are stopped.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/noble-numbat-release-schedule/35649
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/oracular-oriole-release-schedule/36460

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha