Comment 17 for bug 286906

(In reply to comment #10)
> It's not a free lunch, it's a lunch that Ubuntu can buy at a reasonable price
> if they want to ship the library with different support/backport provisions
> than upstream will provide.

This begs the question of whose reputation gets damaged if the stable version is not well-maintained. We don't have resources to keep a stable version patched for security bugs, perhaps Ubuntu doesn't either -- then what?

/be