Carlos pinged about this on Matrix
(https://matrix.to/#/!slcYrFqWytcsbPzMxA:ubuntu.com/$Cy36RxSdvU-
BacSvWG7H2hJSIaxNPV5E4GoPSghaJJk?via=ubuntu.com&via=matrix.org&via=matrix.debian.social):

Me:

> So wslu provides the wslview tool for example, right? What about users
who use it? Will they lose that functionality in a new image?

> I use it for example to open urls in the browser from mutt inside WSL.

Carlos:

> If we proceed, yeah, users would loose wslview and other features
provided by wslu in a new image. The problem with that package is that
it's unmaintained at this point, the upstream discontinued the project
and org in GitHub. Your specific use case is covered by the terminal
itself. Instead of running wslview <URL> one can simply ctrl+left-click
over the URL and that will be open in the Windows browser as well. But I
also reckon this is just one use case and users might have use cases we
don't have alternatives for.

So it seems to me that:

1) This will actually regress users, so isn't acceptable from an SRU
perspective.

2) You already committed to maintaining the wslu package for the
lifetime of the release when you took the action to add it to the
release. Saying it is "unmaintained" to me only says that you wish to
renege on the commitment that you (CPC) yourself made to maintain it in
the first place.

3) Therefore there is nothing to reconsider.

Nevertheless I will see what the SRU team think about this in our next
meeting.

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