apt-offline bugfix available

[Robie Basak]

Hi Dietmar,

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 04:37:29PM +0000, DIETMAR MAY wrote:
> As I read it, virtually nothing in universe will ever be updated after release - apparently even if there's a known bug and fix available from the upstream maintainer - out of fears that the bugfix might somehow break something else ... :-(

I don't think that's true. There are many packages going through the
updates process all the time. The requirement is that somebody does some
best effort consideration and testing that a fix won't break something
else, that's all. It's very rare for us to deny a bugfix in a stable
release, especially in a non-core package like apt-offline. It's usually
just a case of determining what level of testing is required to meet the
standard that our users expect.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-offline/+bug/1357217
for example, which was the last time that apt-offline went through this
process.

Robie
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