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report experimental excuses on package tracker pages

The package tracker pages already report Excuses, why a package version in unstable has not yet migrated to testing. The debian infrastructure also generates Experimental Excuses, helping judge whether a package version in experimental would be fit for migration to testing.

Experimental Excuses are reported on the qa.debian.org developer pages, with an Excuse link added to the exp column when relevant. An example is the excuses page for ovito 3.10.5~ds-3, https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?experimental=1&package=ovito

At the moment the package tracker page does not provide links to the Experimental Excuses. So we have to divert back through the qa.debian.org to find them.

It would be very useful if a link to Experimental Excuses could be added to the tracker pages.

Edited by Drew Parsons