I would like to thank you for your work upstream, especially since my
last comment was unnecessarily harsh.  I believe you and I understand
the dilemma between a stable distribution and out of date code.  Many
attempts have been made to address this, including rolling releases, SRU
policies, flatpak, appimage, snap etc.  The problem remains.

I understand your frustration when users complain that something is not
working.  I remember discussing the problem in IRC with the xpra
community.  I don't remember the details but I walked away with the
strong feeling that they had no clue whatsoever about distros and
packaging yet where attempting to package for hundreds of platforms,
something that simply cannot be done correctly.

I hope the relation between Debian/Ubuntu on one hand and xpra can
become more productive.  If your idea of that is to backport large
swathes of code or even "worse" to push back entire upstream releases to
a stable Ubuntu release, I am sure you will be disappointed.  Once a
release is finalized only targeted bugfixes can be applied (->
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates)

I am a packager and I'm willing to do my part make Ubuntu packages in
LTS releases better.  Let's work together.

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