Why was this dbus disaster released mid-release?

[Joshua C.]

2008/12/12 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> That's a question I don't have an answer for.  Epoch could have been
>> bumped to handle the version downgrade for a reversion.  I think this
>> was the first mention of reverting the dbus update that I have seen in
>> discussion.
>
> Actually I already suggested it. It could have been done without an Epoch
> bump, by pushing an 1.2.6-2 build with just the security policy change
> reverted using a patch.
>
>        Kevin Kofler
>
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Does the maintainer read this list?  He still works on it (in koji)
but it seams he doesn't know that the user are using his broken
"update"