At least at first glance, I think this is SRU-able:
2.2. Other safe cases
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Bugs which do not fit under above categories, but (1) have an obviously safe patch and (2) affect an application rather than critical infrastructure packages (like X.org or the kernel).
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All that's being done is adding a couple of build dependencies, the program appears to be useless without them so it can't get much worse, and this isn't critical infrastructure, so I think it can be SRU'd.
At least at first glance, I think this is SRU-able:
2.2. Other safe cases
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Bugs which do not fit under above categories, but (1) have an obviously safe patch and (2) affect an application rather than critical infrastructure packages (like X.org or the kernel).
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From https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/StableRelea seUpdates
All that's being done is adding a couple of build dependencies, the program appears to be useless without them so it can't get much worse, and this isn't critical infrastructure, so I think it can be SRU'd.