From: joerg@debian.org 
  
 On 17707 March 1977, Simon McVittie wrote: 
  
 > Note that if a package exists in unstable, it will usually get copied 
 > into Ubuntu 'universe' for their LTS releases, even if it is 
 > unsuitable 
 > for that purpose. experimental might be a better choice for that 
 > reason. 
  
 No. That is no valid reason to not upload to unstable. Its a downstreams 
 problem to block it somehow if they dont want it in their 
 release/longterm support, but its not on Debian. Put it in unstable and 
 block it from testing, thats all fine. (One could think of, maybe, a 
 flag in the package control files somehow that shows that this is not 
 longterm supportable. Would make it easier to know about it/communicate 
 this fact) 
  
 > fasttrack is an experiment, and is not currently well-integrated with 
 > the main Debian archive: it doesn't have buildds (maintainers have to 
 > do 
 > binary uploads) and operates its own dak instance. But I think a lot 
 > of 
 > leaf packages like independent third-party applications (and 
 > especially 
 > games) might be better-served by being in fasttrack than by being part 
 > of our stable releases: for that category of package, our users want a 
 > version that will run correctly on a stable *OS*, but not necessarily 
 > a 
 > version of the leaf package that is, itself, long-term stable. 
  
 I could think of this being an official Debian part of the archive. 
 Should probably be discussed more, but to me it sounds a useful thing to 
 have aside backports. 
  
  
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