Comment 14 for bug 2035061

Could we have a justification for why this is important for SRU, please? As written, the Impact statement describes a bug, but doesn't present any explanation of why it is important for Ubuntu to fix it in its stable releases. If it is just that the output might be wrong and we'd like it to be correct, then it should be sufficient to be fixed in the next release.

There is a cost to every SRU in terms of review, sponsorship and SRU review time, and then for millions of users to download and install yet another update. I'm sure most users do not want to download many megabytes just for this type of stable release update (this binary is small, but doing this kind of thing across many packages adds up), so there needs to be a strong justification for doing it.

We can stage this change to be bundled with another fix should it ever come, but note that we've been doing this kind of thing for a while and many such changes never land before the release EOLs, meaning that such review efforts were wasted and better spent on other reviews instead.

I'm setting this Won't Fix for now since, as described, the Impact statement does not provide sufficient justification for an SRU.

We can reconsider if we have a report of a real user story that demonstrates why this is of high enough impact to users to be worth fixing it.