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ubuntu-dev-tools package

  1. Bug #1864571
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1864571

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1864571] Re: SRU ubuntu-dev-tools

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:56:24PM -0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> This is the kind of things backports should be used for.

Backports are not used by default, and the backports archive is for when you
want to give users the choice of the old vs the new behavior.

My argument is that for a development tool, we should expect the trunk
behavior consistently, and anything else is a bug; hence I believe it's
suitable for SRU.

Alternatively it could be distributed to Ubuntu developers as a snap (and
therefore be release-agnostic).

> Are there no chances for a new backports team to appear and maintain those
> pockets?

I think that is highly unlikely at this point.