Comment 2 for bug 1054979

On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Fabrice Coutadeur wrote:
> And thanks for your interest in Ubuntu! As we are past feature freeze,
> you need to follow the FFe process, attaching the files described at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#FeatureFreeze_for_new_upstream_versions,
> befote the package can be synced.
>
> Unsubscribing sponsors: please subscribe them again once you get the FFe.

Well, it just won't happen. I take care of this package for Debian, and I
file Ubuntu syncrequest bugs when it becomes important to propagate changes
from Debian to Ubuntu. I also pay attention to launchpad, and will answer
Ubuntu bug reports and fix them "upstream" (in Debian) when it makes sense
to do so.

But I am NOT an Ubuntu developer, and I do not have the spare time to become
one at the moment...

So, either someone on the Ubuntu side will decide to bother and help with
the Ubuntu end (such as building and testing packages on Ubuntu Quantal VMs
to supply the information you require for freeze-exceptions), or Quantal
will ship outdated intel-microcode and microcode.ctl packages.

The packages currently in Quantal do work fine, so it is not that big an
issue if Quantal ships them.

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