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Re:Valve Steam Deck by beermonster on Friday July 16, 2021 @04:55PM (#27861105)
> in Stable (what you call Stagnant) vulns get backported.

This isn’t always possible. And sometimes creates more problems than it solves or ends up not mitigating the issue completely.

In any case, backporting is a slower process. And back ports for non-stable are not done by the security team but volunteers.

Re:Valve Steam Deck by Fnoord on Sunday July 18, 2021 @10:46AM (#27873387)
I was on about security and reliability fixes. These are applied when you run Stable, via Security repository, enabled by default. I was not on about Backports repository.