Comment 191 for bug 186382

Yes, in know.
Envy is not official ubuntu - I never said It were not possible. You can for sure backport any version into edgy if you want.

But AFAIK _Ubuntu_ won't DO it, by policy.
They don't even take new bugfix versions of e.g. Samba: loo at http://www.samba.org -
Samba maintainance version 3.0.32
Ubuntu hardy: 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.4
Ubuntu hardy-updates: 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.7

They implement bug fixes, yes, but they don't include newer versions. Thats policy.

So what I meant: Sure you can have them available with envy - but that has nothing wo do with Ubuntu updates or bug fixes. Envy is unofficial, unsupported. Envy says, that you have to uninstall envy if you want to dist-upgrade Ubuntu to a newer version.
Know what I mean?

And that's the bad thing in prop drivers like nvidia - Ubuntu can't see what caused the bug, and fix it in Intrepid (173/177) - because, as I understand their policy, they DON'T take newer versions to an existing release. Ubuntu has no rolling release. The driver version will stay at 173/177.
Please correct me if I am wrong.