Comment # 5 on bug 1021646 from Scott Bahling

(In reply to Marguerite Su from comment #4)
> I don't know how this backport repository works, but the nginx in it was
> 1.8.1, the same version as Leap 42.1/42.2.
> nginx in factory has been 1.11.x for some time, so it looks like someone
> intended not to backport 1.11.x.

Right, and we leave it to the packagers to decide how to maintain packages in
Backports. We don't have a version update restriction, but we don't see a
reason to impose it either. Definitely we want the security updates and why we
need to be able to accept your SR.

> BTW that's not the point I think..."any bugfix for backports has to land in
> factory first", just too strict.
> what if the fix works on older SLE infrastructure but breaks in Factory?
> different gcc versions can easily achieve that.

Agreed. Which is why we want to fall back to human review for changes that
deviate from Factory (or Leap), and we are working on improving the bot at this
time.