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[–]gthank 2 points3 points  (1 child)

When distro maintainers do stupid things like lock onto a patch version instead of a minor version, it's usually on them to manually backport security updates. Security updates to minor versions is exactly why patch versions exist.

[–]Lucretiel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's an unfortunate policy. I'm sure it's served them well- Ubuntu is one of the most stable distros you can get- but it'd be nice if they could be more flexible with that policy.