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  Msg # 86 of 1179 on ZZLI4422, Sunday 9-06-25, 12:54  
  From: SIMON MCVITTIE  
  To: RUSS ALLBERY  
  Subj: Re: why package Signal in Debian?  
 From: smcv@debian.org 
  
 On Thu, 04 Sep 2025 at 08:45:58 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: 
 >Do we have a documented way of marking an RC bug as being a persistent 
 >blocking bug to prevent a package from entering testing, as opposed to 
 >some other transient problem that is expected to be fixed, so that Ubuntu 
 >could trigger off of that field? 
  
 Yes ish, for small and non-project-wide values of "documented": 
  
      user helmutg@debian.org 
      usertags NNN + sidremove-ignore 
  
 (which is really an instruction to Helmut's semi-automatic RC-buggy 
 package remover, see e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/1080501) 
  
      smcv 
  
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