Wearing my SRU-hat here, I think we need to consider a few things:
 * Generally for SRUs we prefer not to pull in new upstream releases if there 
is no need. So of course, if possible, cherry-picking fixes is preferred.
 * But on the other hand, if the number of changes that need to be performed to 
get the functionality added (and bug fixed) is too high, then we start getting 
into the territory of regression-risk if the cherry-picks are incomplete or 
buggy.

So first thing I'd like to know is how big of a changeset would be
needed to get this into the current focal iptables version. Once we have
that info, another thing that might be good to do is to contact the
Ubuntu Security Team for opinion - this package is managed by their team
and I'd like to hear their opinion about which approach they prefer (for
maintenance purposes). A review by them of the cherry-picks would be
welcome as well.

Generally we try not to introduce new features for stable releases, but
we might make an exception here. But I'd certainly like for us to think
a bit about our steps forward.

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