Comment 20 for bug 2002043

It is a legitimate bug.

"Legitimate bug" is not the threshold for an SRU. There are many legitimate bugs that we decline to fix.

> Stable release updates are automatically recommended to a very large number
> of users, and so it is critically important to treat them with great caution.
> Therefore, when updates are proposed, they must be accompanied by a strong
> rationale and present a low risk of regressions.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Why

Fixing this bug carries the non-local risk that subsequent security updates of OTHER packages will have regressions because the build flags used to compile them have been "corrected" to a value previously untested by us.

And as I said, this can be worked around in local code.