[Bug 2111817] Re: coreutils-from is in main but coreutils-from-uutils is not

[Skia]

Blocking the update of coreutils-from 0.0.0~ubuntu3 to 0.0.0~ubuntu10 is
breaking developers workflows on questing due to bug 2111882. Obviously
we can work around that by installing from -proposed, but I've lost a
couple of hours already wondering what I did wrong, because the rollback
to GNU coreutils apparently doesn't fix chroot once it's been pointed to
uutils with version ubuntu3.

The issue about main vs universe is absolutely valid, but as far as I
understand, it's already present with version 0.0.0~ubuntu3, so what's
to gain in blocking ubuntu10 in -proposed? Would it be possible to let
it migrate for all the bug fixes to reach our machines, instead of us
investigating them again? Possibly blocking again afterwards if that's
required.

Let me know what can be done here.

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Title:
  coreutils-from is in main but coreutils-from-uutils is not

Status in coreutils-from package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Currently in questing-proposed,

  coreutils has Pre-Depends: coreutils-from-uutils | coreutils-from-gnu

  coreutils is in main
  coreutils-from-gnu is in main
  coreutils-from-uutils is in universe

  It looks like britney would allow this to migrate to questing.

  I'm filing a blocker bug because the first alternative for a package
  in main ought to be in main. In practice, I think this would result in
  the universe Ubuntu Desktop Flavor ISOs to pull in coreutils-from-
  uutils but the Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server ISOs to use coreutils-
  from-gnu. I'm guessing people upgrading from plucky would also get
  coreutils-from-uutils. This is chaotic.

  I think that we need to get coreutils-from-uutils and rust-coreutils
  into main before allowing this swap to continue. In other words, this
  is blocked by LP: #2111815

  Other Info
  ----------
  I think this could be said to be a violation of Debian Policy § 2.2.1 once translated to Ubuntu archive specifics.

  https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#the-main-
  archive-area

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