In general, the Ubuntu Security team is ok with snapd going into main in
14.04.

We trust that the snapd upstream developers will be responsive in fixing
security issues and there's a documented history of them performing SRUs
to stable Ubuntu releases. We can depend on them to prepare any
necessary security updates and perform QA prior to the updates being
published.

@mvo please confirm that what I said above is true.

As for the question of bundling, as long as the upstream project has a
close relationship with the Ubuntu Security team, there's a demonstrable
history of regular SRUs, and the dependency does not exist in the stable
Ubuntu release, I'm reluctant but ok with bundling of new dependencies
in stable Ubuntu releases.

There are some open questions about how much help the Ubuntu Security
team can actually provide in tracking security issues in snapd's bundled
dependencies. We currently have no convenient way of determining
existing bundled dependencies in snapd and have no notification
mechanism when upstream adds a new bundled dependency. I'll discuss this
more in bug 1658181.

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