Comment 3 for bug 1741390

Hi evade,
I understand your case but this has to be very carefully evaulated.
In the sense that you describe it about every package in Xenial is now "two years out of date", because the policy to not break on what users already use has a lot of implicatons [1]

One tries to address bug-fixes in an isolated testable way as good as possible, but such a major update is rare. Even minor release updates (less bumps than this case) have to follow a very strict process with [2] as examples.

The way out of this is [3] where people can prepare newer versions without affecting the world as it is mostly opt-in and thereby not affecting the majority of users who consider themselves safe by the SRU policy.

I currently have no cycles to spare on this, so if this is urgent for you I wanted to ask if you are willing and able to start driving this bug along the Ubuntu Backport Process [4]?

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
[2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Documentation_for_Special_Cases
[3]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports
[4]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports