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On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 08:06:20PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
 
> Because if that last is the case, then the prescription is very simple
> and not controversial --- bug fixes found post -rc4 should be held to
> the next merge window.

Provided it's not a known-to-be-exploited roothole, at least...