> It's a hackish set for scripts that is unmaintained and unmaintainable
and discontinued upstream.

The MIR[1] for this package stated back then (2019):

"""
Maintenance
===========
- Actively maintained upstream:
  https://github.com/wslutilities/wslu
- Ubuntu Foundations Team is subscribed to the bug reports
- I'm the only listed maintainer of the package but it is a simple package and 
does not need a lot of attention.
"""

It was demoted to universe some point after focal (in jammy it's in
universe already), but Focal is still an LTS and under ESM now. There is
definitely an expectation to not "just remove it".

It even has an SRU exception[3] for it. Confidence was very high.

Was it a "hackish set of scripts" back then as well, or did it
deteriorate since then?

There are very few cases[2] for SRUs to remove a package, and much less
for a package in main. None of the ones listed in [2] were actually in
main, so removing wslu would really be something extraordinary,
requiring more justification than what was provided.


1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wslu/+bug/1820769
2. https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/SRU/reference/historical-removals/
3. 
https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/SRU/reference/exception-wslu-Updates/

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