Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 03:18 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> > And even if the Fedora Thunderbird maintainer decides to push a
> > patched package to F-12, there's no way it should be pushed directly
> > to stable.
> 
> Why not, if it contains an important fix?

Because if we don't test the updated package we don't know:

a) does it actually fix the bug?
b) does it break anything else?

Just because an update 'contains an important fix' doesn't mean it's
fine to release it without testing.

However, I certainly agree this should be fixed ASAP, and saying 'well
it doesn't crash for EVERYONE' and 'upstream should fix it instead' are
pretty weak excuses.
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