Public bug reported:

If you install "freedombox" 20.3 (in Focal and Groovy) you'll get:

# cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/50freedombox3.pref
   ...
   Explanation: matrix-synapse >= 1.2 requires python3-service-identity >= 18.1
   Package: python3-service-identity
   Pin: release a=buster-backports
   Pin-Priority: 500
   ...

The above is odd, but since it is just controlling preferences doesn't break 
things.
But if you install version 20.10 from groovy-proposed you will even get:

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/freedombox2.list 
  # This file is managed by FreedomBox, do not edit.
  # Allow carefully selected updates to 'freedombox' from backports.

  deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main
  deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main


That breaks the system as we don't have the keys.
And also this is a total pollution of the potential installed package base.

I really think this isn't right - even in a pure Debian scope that seems wrong 
to me.
I was tempted to ask for a package removal but then in the discussion (thanks 
RAOF and doko) realized that for now:
  - the new version won't migrate into Ubuntu due to that
  - due to that we will stick with the non-broken 20.3
  - we could upload Delta to stop this from happening

Therefore I filed:
  - this bug so people looking at update-excuses and such
    find it and will not need to debug again
  - a Debian bug to remove this behavior or at least have
    it skipped on derivatives.

** Affects: plinth (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: update-excuse

** Tags added: update-excuse

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  Adds buster-backports to /etc/apt/sources.list... which breaks a
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