Questions about LTS maintenance
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Hi all,
I have some questions about how LTS releases are maintained, and I couldn't find much information in my search.
A little while ago, I reported a bug in PySide that has since been fixed. The maintainer requested that the fix be cherry-picked into the 6.5 and 6.8 LTS releases, but the cherry-pick bot rejected both as "closed branches."
Does that imply that LTS releases do not receive patches? Or that they only get patched under certain conditions? Or do the core Qt libraries get maintained but not the PySide bindings?
There is an additional note that I can "contact the Releasing group to argue for inclusion," but when I emailed the address provided, I only received an automated reply that "posting to this list is restricted to subscribed members." I'd still like to advocate for its inclusion in 6.8 at least, since the patch prevents segfaults, and that is very unexpected & hard to debug for python developers. However, I'm not sure where to go with it from here.
Are there any additional paths forward for this, or should LTS releases be considered completely frozen?
Thanks!
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Hi,
AFAIK LTS branches do receive fixes otherwise there wouldn't be a sense to have them in the first place. At least they do in the Qt modules. For that particular case I think it might have been a glitch but I don't know how the branches are managed for Qt for Python.
