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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Should non-security 2.7 bugs be fixed?
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 20:45:53 -0700
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Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> writes:
> I am suggesting that if there are 10x as many 2.7only programmers as
> 3.xonly programmers, and none of the 2.7 programmers is willing to do
> the backport *of an already accepted patch*, then maybe it should not
> be done at all.

The patch acceptance/approval process is frankly daunting.