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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:29:09 +0000

> But you've previously said that you are not submitting networking
> patches to the longterm series.  Did you change your mind?

No, I in fact haven't.

But I will say that if distributions want to apply this thing, that's
fine, but it doesn't automatically make it a good idea for -stable
to take it too.