Comment 34 for bug 359658

> What backporting? The dude had a package already created and ready to go. The only thing left to do was actually give it to the users.

The stable update process require testing and validation of the updates by different team to assure there is no regression in the change

> So the current situation, a current release which most users are using, rife with bugs (that have been fixed and are just floating around in PPAs even!) is better?

The situation is not ideal but that's what can be done with the current manpower knowing that ubuntu doesn't write most of the software it's shipping you get unhappy users either way either because they lack features available in new versions if you work on old version only by fixing bugs or because bugs are not fixed on all versions when working on updates