Comment 5 for bug 874250

After talking with the security team and the kernel team, this issue is causing a lot of problems with the kernel cadence in Ubuntu Engineering. The kernel cadence is a process outlined here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/kernel-sru-workflow

While kernel workflow bugs seem to be ok for the moment, more and more CVE tracking bugs are broken because precise and the oneiric backport kernel were added resulting in I'm told 11 extra tasks to the bugs. Bugs are timing out and can no longer be updated, which ultimately wastes developer resources and reduces parallelism. What this means is that bug reports are inaccurate so they can't be trusted and one person becomes a blocker on manually fixing them. This makes it more difficult for people to work together on the security fixes and security fixes therefore lag (meaning our users aren't getting them as quickly).

I realize this bug is already a distro-escalated Critical bug, but the recent opening of Precise and the newly added backport kernel are aggravating the issue, so I wanted to make sure this was captured.