Comment 43 for bug 57875

The weird thing is, the testing before the initial release was zero. It didn't work with any JVM on any machine. But when the release is final, it becomes very difficult to patch a package. You will need to get all kinds of permissions and such.

I would say:
 - less bureaucracy when patching packages after final release.
 - more bureaucracy when adding a package to a release before its final

And if it doesn't work at release time, do not include the package at all. Maybe it'll be in time for the next ubuntu-release, but it missed this one.

Sort of something like: it requires 10 people to say 'yeah, it works' before it can even reach the final universe-repository. (before that it should just be in proposed like a patch is after the final release)

Considering the fact that its one of those programs at least 20% of all new users will install first (because they were also using it on windows), it makes a really bad impression of Ubuntu. Would it not be in the repositories, they would have downloaded it from the site, and it would have worked. However, will they know that the repository version is weird hacked up version? No, they won't. They won't try the upstream version, they will give up. Perhaps on a Ubuntu as a whole.