Comment 8 for bug 56057
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| Soren Hansen (soren) wrote Re: [Bug 56057] Re: Dovecot complains about missing /etc/inetd.conf is missed during install | #8 |
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On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:29:49PM -0000, Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
> Just a comment. In this case, can the bug be closed even if it was
> reported in a LTS version (Dapper?). I thought LTS meant that bugs
> *would be fixed*.
It's important to remember, that in many cases, a bugfix is not merely a
1 that should have been a 0 something as simple as that. Often, to fix a
bug, you need to rewrite anything between a few lines of code to several
hundred lines of code. In doing so, it's likely that new bugs will be
introduced. For that reason, a bug needs to be very significant to
warrant an update in a released version of Ubuntu, as it may break
things for other people which would be even worse.
For that reason, we have a very strict policy when it comes to letting
*anything* new come into a released version, especially an LTS one. You
can read all about it here: https:/
In short, bugs are generally closed when they're fixed in the current
development release. If you feel a bug is important enough to be fixed
in previously releases of Ubuntu, you can post a comment to that effect,
or you open a release task as explained in the wiki page I linked to
above.