On Mon, Sep 27, 2010, Tim Gardner wrote:
The packages that are directly maintained by the kernel team should all be in main. I suspect linux-linaro _should_ be in universe since it is not strictly subject to SRU criteria and it is not maintained by the kernel team.
This is how I felt as well, but I recall some people argued in favor of having linux-linaro in main; not sure why anymore. It might have been asac, Cc:ing him.
(I had also passed this demotion proposal to Jamie and John, but I'm not sure they got the chance to comment yet.)