I would like to check the decision process for a certain change in Ubuntu. I found the commits implementing the change but in the changelog there is just a plain statement of the change without any explanation or reasoning. I am not able to find any references to a discussion or explanation.
This question is not about the specific change which is shown mainly as an example and to illustrate what I have already tried.
What I have tried (+ specific details)
In older Ubuntu versions the package wslu1 was installed by default on Ubuntu for WSL. Since 22.04 it is not being installed any more.
The package used to be installed as a dependency of ubuntu-wsl2 which is created from the source package ubuntu-meta3,4
The dependency was removed from ubuntu-wsl for the target amd64 in the commit c846724c7d249e0ff6d3a38a6a91468794e910eb with only this message:
* Removed wslu from wsl [amd64 arm64]I tried to look for the reason of the removal at these places:
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta
- https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wslu
- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/ (manually, no reasonable search interface found)
- https://ubuntuforums.org/
I have not found anything.
Questions
Did I miss something? Are such changes usually made without a discussion and writing down reasons? If they are discussed what is the usual platform for the discussion? What is the best procedure to question this change?