Pali, ah, thanks for the explanation.

What we normally look for in security updates is minimal patches that
address just security updates. The usual way to prepare updates is to
download the source packages for the different affected releases, adapt
the patches to the specific software, and then provide a "debdiff"
between the old package and the new package.

A handful of packages do get updated via wholesale new versions, like
firefox, chromium-browser, mysql, and others, via a process known as the
"micro release exceptions" --
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/MicroReleaseExceptions --
but this usually takes a few "regular" updates that go well as a
precondition to the MRE.

Thanks

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