[Bug 159717] Unrelated upates eg hardware support) are pushed to feisty-security

[laga]

Public bug reported:

I have enabled the feisty-security repository in order to receive
security updates (as implied by the name). However, I had to find out
the hard way that not only security updates are released, but also  new
hardware support and other unrelated additions. See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-
source-2.6.22/+bug/139767

Similar releases can be found in Dapper, eg 2.6.15-26.47 which was
released to dapper-security. The changelog includes items like
"sound/pci{,/emu10k1}: Miscellaneous cleanups" which doesn't seem
security-related to me.

I'm not sure of a better way to handle updates. There could be a special security-fixes-only tree for <release>-security and a normal tree with other changes (including the security fixes of course) for <release>-updates. Of course, this creates more work for the developers :( I'm sure someone can come up with a better workflow (if my bug doesn't get rejected). 
I just find it hardly acceptable that package releases tagged as "security" break drivers. Of course, it's just me complaining right now about a rather obscure piece of hardware breaking but I'd be surprised if other users haven't been caught by similar regression in the past.

** Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Summary changed:

- Unrelated upates eg hardware support) are pushed to feisty-security
+ Unrelated upates (eg hardware support) are pushed to feisty-security

** Also affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Unrelated upates (eg hardware support) are pushed to feisty-security
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159717
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