Comment 25 for bug 1394731

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1394731] Re: [MIR] grilo-plugins

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 01:59:16PM -0000, Michael Terry wrote:
> Is there no way to mark a package in main as 'not supported?' I
> remember that we have some way to mark a universe package as supported.
> Can we do the inverse?

This, in effect, is what the archive reorg spec was about. Unfortunately,
to date it has not been implemented. So no, there's no way to do this
currently.

> In any case, historically the MIR team did not *require* a team looking
> after the package. Only recently have we started blocking promotion
> based on that. And even then, we haven't required that the team be from
> Canonical. Should we loop someone from Canonical's support team in?
> See how they handle flavor packages like this?

As far as I'm aware this isn't really a commercial support question. From
my POV this is about development support.