Sorry, the message was inadvertently sent before it was finished. Thierry Carrez wrote on 2010-04-28:
> We cannot push to Lucid a complete new version with new features now, > though we should fix the critical bugs and the security issues. You > should open separate bugs about those, since migrating Lucid completely > to 6.3.16 won't happen at this point, and we'll need separate bugs for > the Lucid SRU process. I am definitely: - not going to help Ubuntu in any way to ship an outdated version (it will only make users re-report fixed bugs upstream over and over again) - not going to help Ubuntu help you break out the NEWS file into individual bugs (I am not reponsible for that the release and package managers missed to look at the bug in time before the freeze, and sync from Debian unstable) - not going to help in any efforts that are not going to reduce the upstream support load. It's not as though recent versions were particularly new or only happened on the day when you froze the distro. You're seeingly and deliberately shipping a version that is unsupported upstream, when a new one was available even before the freeze. Not taking an up-to-date bugfixed version was instead justified because there were local changes. I am not responsible for that relevant parties in Ubuntu fail to look at bug reports in time. Also, the issue was mentioned on ubuntu-developers@ and -sponsors@ in time before the freeze. What I will be doing is if the upstream bug reports go out of hand invoke GPL ยง2a and demand that the package also be changed and a known old version has been shipped for reasons entirely at Ubuntu's descretion and fault. -- Matthias Andree -- Lucid fetchmail version way outdated and buggy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557467 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
