 backports is its own form oc insanity
 form of insanity*
 i'm fairly familiar with backports but...
 ... backports shouljdn't be used to fix *bugs* ;) (re @philipz: anyone familiar with how the backport repo works, as we need to backport neofetch 7.1 into focal to fix the bug of it not showing the correct flavor logo. https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/issues/1505)
 ... backports shouldn't be used to fix *bugs* ;) (edited) (re @philipz: anyone familiar with how the backport repo works, as we need to backport neofetch 7.1 into focal to fix the bug of it not showing the correct flavor logo. https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/issues/1505)
 this is probably something you want to read:
 > The Backports Project is a means to provide new features to users. Because of the inherent stability risks in backporting packages, users do not get backported packages without some explicit action on their part. This generally makes backports an inappropriate avenue for fixing bugs. If a package in an Ubuntu release has a bug, it should be fixed either through the Security Upda
 this is probably something you want to read and focus on, from the Backports page's info: The Backports Project is a means to provide new features to users. Because of the inherent stability risks in backporting packages, users do not get backported packages without some explicit action on their part. This generally makes backports an inappropriate avenue for fixing bugs. If a pac
 thank for the insight. so it should be pushed into focal-updates then. got it. (re @teward001: this is probably something you want to read and focus on, from the Backports page's info: The Backports Project is a means to provide new features to users. Because of the inherent stability risks in backporting packages, users do not get backported packages without some explicit action on
 yes, though it needs to go through the SRU process first.  And the SRU team might NACK it, unless you have specific upstream commits that fix the problem you can nitpick into the specific older versions as specific patches. (re @philipz: thank for the insight. so it should be pushed into focal-updates then. got it.)
 backports is good to get newer software into older releases when SRU is not applicable (not bug fixes, primarily new features)
 but backports is not really where an upload just to address bugs should be put