[Bug 1085593] Re: bind 9.8.1-P1 crashes with an assertion failure

[Robie Basak]

"We move them on to the latest maintenance checkout point/release on the
branch they are using *when* they encounter a bug."

Emphasis mine. Although I'm not saying that this is necessarily a
problem for Ubuntu to have a micro release exception here, it is
interesting that ISC advise their customers to update only when they
have an issue. On Ubuntu, if we pushed the bind9 bugfix branch to
-updates, Ubuntu users would get an update whether they have an issue or
not, and thus could be affected by a regression even if this bug had
nothing to do with them. I think this is a key difference when
considering the stability/benefits of the two options.

I'm not sure that this bug is going to make much progress without a
developer working out what to cherry-pick, which with the current
process is what needs to happen. If upstream can't help, then somebody
else will need to pick this up. Can you volunteer? I'm not sure I can
justify spending lots of time on this bug unless it affects
significantly many more people (there's an "affects me" link at the top
of this bug).

If you want to change the process for bind9 by pushing for a standing
micro release exception, probably the best place to begin discussing
that would be the ubuntu-devel mailing list. My biggest concern would be
around who would do both the initial work and maintenance of that, but I
am a member of neither the stable release update team nor the technical
board; perhaps they would be fine with it or have other concerns.

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  bind 9.8.1-P1 crashes with an assertion failure

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