Hi,
This is related to the FFE for train, but I wanted to discuss it separately because I think the circumstances are a bit different. Qemu 4.1.0 did not exist during the Stein cycle, so it's not clear to me that backporting bug fixes for it is valid. The original author of the patch actually wants it for Rocky, which is basically in the same situation as Stein. I should note he's willing to carry the patch downstream if necessary.
On the one hand, it sounds like this is something at least one operator wants, but on the other I'm not sure the stable policy supports backporting patches to support a version of a dependency that didn't exist when the release was initially cut. I'm soliciting opinions on how to proceed here.
Reference: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/686532
Thanks.
-Ben