Comment 9 for bug 2040059

I don't think the quality implications of allowing further test failures is something I'd normally be comfortable accepting. However, in this case, the package is not in Noble at all, removed from Debian testing for reasons that seem unlikely to be fixed by feature freeze, so I expect it to remain removed from Noble. So Noble isn't fixed, but nor does the package exist in Noble. What's the difference between this and the package being bad in Mantic? Dave points out that on release upgrade the removal in Noble would be explicit but for Mantic the package would remain and then start failing.

So, given the package is completely broken at the moment, I think it's OK to accept this into Mantic as it won't make the situation any worse, and some users may benefit from it working in Mantic.

It does seem like many people will be unhappy about sagemath being missing in Noble though. Volunteers to help with this are welcome!