Comment 42 for bug 1813873

Considering that this is a regression, with major impact (TTY login no longer possible, often no graphical login either), many affected users on (amongst other) the latest LTS release, and both this fact and how to fix it has been known since at least January 30, I am puzzled as to why this is being handled as an update with the default stable release cadence.

Could you kindly explain the following (since I may just be misunderstanding how things are handled):
Was rolling back the breaking (since incomplete) patchset (which introduced this issue) not an option?
Has testing on 18.04 and 16.04 brought up new problems, which would have had even more serious impact?
How is "importance" calculated (personally I would have set it to "critical" or "major", if those are available)?

Thanks.