Bug fixes for stable releases?

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="thully at umich.edu">

> I know that currently, Ubuntu provides security updates for the stable
> release for a period of time.  However, I wanted to suggest that Ubuntu
> provide, in addition to security fixes, bug fixes for the stable release
> (if they are simple and do not negatively affect anything).  There are
> several issues in Warty that have since been fixed in Hoary, and it would
> be nice to be able to get some of these issues fixed without upgrading to
> the unstable distribution.

Updates for the stable release include security fixes as well as high impact
or dataloss bug fixes. If you have suggestions for bugs that should be fixed
under these terms in the stable release, please point to bugzilla entries.

- Jeff

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