At this point, this would require a Feature Freeze Exception to be considered for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess You would need to be sure that you would be able to complete the transition: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/transitions/html/exiv2.html Also, why don't you ask the Debian maintainer why this was uploaded to experimental but not unstable yet? ** No longer affects: exiv2 (Ubuntu Bionic) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to exiv2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1715931 Title: Update to exiv2 version 0.26 Status in exiv2 package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: 0.26 was released in April http://www.exiv2.org/whatsnew.html "This release contains a large collection of new features, new lenses and bugfixes across all areas of Exiv2. " Presumably debian stretch freeze interfered with a prompter update Currently in debian exp here: https://packages.debian.org/experimental/exiv2 I was hoping to to get a new feature release of the very popular Digikam (5.7.0) into artful under a FFE, but that has bumped the minimum exiv2 build depend from 0.25 -> 0.26. If due to rdeps etc an update in artful turns out not to be possible, I would like to target this for early in 18.04 LTS cycle. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exiv2/+bug/1715931/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp