What to do to get a fix in 8.04?

[NoOp]

On 10/30/2008 04:35 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
> 
>> On 10/30/2008 10:06 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> Rolf Kutz wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Bug #203016 has been open for more than half a
>>>> year and it's mayor annoyance. There is a patch
>>>> for it since month, too. What is neccessary to get
>>>> the fix released to Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS?
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/network-manager/+bug/203016
>>>> 
>>> Begging?  It's an annoyance but it seems to have been assigned no more
>>> than "medium" importance, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's never
>>> going to be an official fix to this in Hardy.
>> 
>> Given that Hardy is an LTS, I see the requirement to apply the fix to
>> hardy as considerably more important than Intrepid. But the last post on
>> that bug indicates that it's not fixed in Intrepid either.
> 
> Except that if the developers don't see it being a real usability problem
> (it can't be happening to everyone - or if it is, it can't be an unlimited
> memory leak) there's no way they're going to patch a stable release.
> 
> otoh, I didn't actually read all the comments on the bug - I just read the
> first couple and the headers, where they said it _was_ fixed for Intrepid. 
> If it isn't, then there's no reason to assume that the patch Rolf mentions
> actually works - which would be another reason why there isn't a fix, or a
> promise of one, for Hardy yet.

RTFB? :-)