Comment 2 for bug 318818

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 04:12:02PM -0000, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Due to the many regression bugs which the foomatic-filters package in
> Intrepid has (see changelog below) I propose to replace Intrepid's
> foomatic-filters by the final 4.0.0 release (which is currently in
> Jaunty).

This does not fit the SRU process as described at
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates>. Micro-release exceptions
for SRUs must be approved by the TB, based on the presence of an upstream QA
process that provides a reasonable guarantee that the new release will be
regression-free relative to what we released with. Unless a micro-release
exception is first established, we should only be accepting targeted changes
that each qualify under the SRU policy.

Which of these changes do you believe meet the SRU process's requirement to
only fix high-impact bugs? I will say that I don't think LSB test failures
are themselves an SRU justification.

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