R. David Murray added the comment:

We don't generally backport tests unless they are part of a bug fix.  It's not 
a blanket prohibition, but normally the risk of false positives in a 
maintenance release on platforms not covered by our buildbots outweighs the 
benefits of adding the tests.

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