Ubuntu bug live circle

[Andrea Corbellini]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella <es20490446e at gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry, but this explanation seems not to be in accordance with what is explained in the Ubuntu Wiki Stable Release Updates and Final Freeze pages. It seems that the moment when updates for no critical bugs are forbidden is after the final freeze in the Release Schedule. Is this right?

FinalFreeze says that only updates that address "Release critical bugs", "Security critical bugs" or "Exceptional circumstances" can land in Ubuntu.

StableReleaseUpdate explains what the exceptional circumstances are (see 2. When).

None of the two pages put requirements on the importance of the bugs being fixed. Generally, bugs that get fixed through SRUs are Critical, sometimes High, but this is a consequence of the SRU requirements, but not a constraint. In theory, even a Wishlist bug may be fixed through a stable release update, this is perfectly permitted.

For example look here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+bugs?orderby=-importance&field.status%3Alist=FIXRELEASED&field.importance%3Alist=LOW&field.importance%3Alist=WISHLIST&field.tag=verification-done

This is the list of all Low and Wishlist bugs that got fixed in Quantal via SRUs. Obviously that list isn't long, however it shows that bug importance and stable release updates are not strictly related.
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