On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 6:14 PM, David Sommerseth
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>
> So when you complain about an unfixed issue in qemu in a specific RHEL/SL release
> and point at the upstream bugtracker, upstream have all rights to say that the EL
> release is outdated and is fixed in a newer upstream release. But that fix won't
> hit RHEL until there is a RHEL bugzilla on this issue. That is what triggers a
> process where Red Hat will evaluate if and how to fix that issue in RHEL.

Upstream would also not be aware of all the patches that RH has
backported without bumping up the package version.