Hello, >Secondly, testing-proposed-updates is highly inconvenient for the >release team. It requires manual intervention and slows everything >down. So we shouldn't upload to unstable unless we *expect* it to be >unblocked.
also, TPU means that semi-automatic bug reports (e.g. piuparts, ftbfs and so on) won't be opened in case the package has problems. Uploading to unstable an RC fix means higher probability of a fix being tested. I don't even remember if t-p-u is available as external repo G.