So, I note that this forum is titled 'requests', and thought it would be the place to submit a backport request for Precise. However, I did see the wiki page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports) which mentions filing a backport as a bug via ubuntu-dev-tools.
So, I'm willing to do that, but the page goes on to say that a bunch of testing is required, and it seems to imply that I must do all this testing myself before the backport request will even be considered.
Now, I'm not one to shirk away from doing work.. but that seems like a pretty steep learning curve for wanting to request a backport. Is that intentional?
In particular, I'd like to request that git be backported to Precise from Quantal or Raring, due to a reported bug with https syncing and github for older versions of git (see https://help.github.com/articles/https-cloning-errors for details), which seems like a legitimate reason to request it, but I'm frankly not sure I'm up to the task of doing all the testing. Am I screwed then, or have I just misread the wiki?