Comment 10 for bug 1313224

Don't forget, there's three entities involved in this:
(1) Debian, where the PPA and Ubuntu packages are based off of.
(2) Ubuntu, which is based off the Debian packages
(3) The PPAs, which will very rarely differ from the Debian packages.

What we'd be doing is changing the PPAs, and then hoping for a retroactive change in Debian. Unfortunately, as the primary PPA maintainer, I don't have any say in what Debian does or doesn't do, I just forward the bugs up to them when their packaging is affected. In this case, their packaging is affected, so having a delta between the PPAs and Debian adds work for me because then I have to nit-pick the merging of changes when I update the PPA later. It's easier from a maintenance standpoint to keep everything in sync with Debian for now. Especially since this bug affects Debian.

As for Ubuntu, there's a whole separate workflow for that, and right now I want to let things settle from the 14.04 release.