What does LTS *actually* mean

[Harald Sitter]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:38:45PM +0100, Harald Sitter wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > What does support mean at all in respect to a Kubuntu release?  We
>> > don't spend time fixing bugs in old releases generally.  But if a fix
>> > is available and is requrested by a friendly user we should do the
>> > update.
>>
>> How would a user request a fix though? Usually that is a bug report,
>> but we have a policy to move upstream reports upstream unless they are
>> of considerable importance to us. So really there is no forum for the
>> user to request a fix backport.
>
> We should evaluate any bugs to check if they are of considerable
> importance to us before moving upstream.  In reality someone is more
> likely to ping on the mailing list or irc.

What is an important bug then?

HS