How to track the backport of important fixes?

[Michael Palimaka]

On 09/03/16 21:17, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelaccio at kdemail.net> writes:
> 
>> I discovered this many weeks ago [1] and I asked the Kubuntu devs on IRC
>> whether they could backport the fix to the 15.08 branch. They told me that
>> they would do it, but apparently they didn't and today I discovered that
>> Kubuntu users are still affected.
>>
>> Maybe IRC was not the right channel, maybe I should have contacted the
>> Kubuntu devs on the kde-distro-packaging list. Or maybe we need something
>> more, something that allows us to track in an easier way which bug gets
>> fixed in which distribution.
> 
> At least so far, this kind of PSA saying "hey guys, please make sure you
> include commit XYZ in your packages" is normally sent to
> kde-distro-packagers. If that also doesn't produce any results, I guess
> you could email some specific packagers directly?

I'm curious how many people on the distro side are actually on that list
currently.