Comment 3 for bug 1666264

Oh come on, there's no hive mind conspiracy against you here, you know that. It's individual developers answering questions that are asked of them and giving you their own judgement. If you'd have asked me before starting this work then I would have given the same answer ("do it only if the other changes make it worthwhile [and maybe consider cherry-picking those first if possible]").

The concern is this

 - Big revert patch
 - Can never drop it as long as we don't move to PCRE 2
 - Gets harder to maintain over time
 - No clear path to moving to PCRE 2
 - Given that, does having the new releases bring features and/or fixes that mean we should take on these difficulties or is this just taking on an unknown amount of work indefinitely just to have a larger number in the version string?

That is a *question*, not an accusation.

Or are you saying that I shouldn't be allowing these considerations to weigh into Feature Freeze requests, since the net change of *this* upload will be small?

Maybe that's fair and if that's the case then it means I'm answering as a fellow desktop team member, not as someone in the release team. In that case, your two ways to get this upload (three if you count 'ignore me and upload anyway' as one) are

 - Provide an explanation that this upload is worth the above future difficulties
 - Show that the net change is small and convince another member of the release team to +1 this request