[$] The core of the -stable debate

Disagreements over which patches should find their way into stable updatesare not new - or uncommon. So when the topic came up again recently, therewas little reason to expect anything but more of the same. And, for themost part, that is what ensued but, in this exchange, we were also able tosee the core issue that drives these discussions. There are, in theend, two fundamentally different views of what the stable tree should be.