Comment 9 for bug 186869

Certainly you can understand that a bug report on a random package is not the place to put in question a process as critical as stable release updates.

I understand the upstream Glom developers are responsible enough to do high quality stable releases, nevertheless the current SRU process requires a "minimal patch", typically something which a human can review and where one can claim it is a completely understood and safe change.

Perhaps this process is too strict for Glom in particular and we certainly bend the process a little for GNOME point releases for instance, but keep in mind there are also other mechanisms to bring new releases to stable users (e.g. backports) if you don't want this particular problem to be fixed.

My suggestions would be to:
- discuss the strictness of the SRU process with the Ubuntu developers at large; I believe this shouldn't happen in a bug report or on your blog, but rather on the Ubuntu mailing lists; perhaps ubuntu-devel-discuss@ or ubuntu-devel@
- in this bug, prepare a minimal patch or wait for someone to create one addressing only the grave issue you mention which requires a SRU