To Backport or not to Backport

[Allen Winter]

On Monday 14 April 2008 08:13:55 Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I recently possibly hit an issue I'd like to know policy about.  In
> KNewStuff2 library I recently added support to install packages to
> absolutepaths for the author of KGrubEditor http://www.kde-
> apps.org/content/show.php/KGRUBEditor?content=75442 so the dialog can
> install the files directly to /boot/grub or whatever (assuming correct
> permissions, etc.)  The "feature" is very small, and he would like me to
> backport it to the 4.0 branch.  It doesn't add any new strings, just adds
> two public methods to knewstuff2/core/insallation.h
>
> thoughts, opinions?
>
One man's feature is another man's bug fix.

I don't see the problem backporting, especially
since you aren't adding any new i18n strings.