On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 10:31 +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:02:10AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > Well there is experimental that could be used to package pre-releases > > and new releases to make them suitable for unstable and testing _before_ > > the freeze! > > > > Add to that unresponsive package maintainers, refusing to package new > > versions of upstream software, even with wishlist bugs filed. Take a > > look at the age of some of these bug, both in time and release numbers. > > There are people willing to package new releases, but they are blocked > > by the current package maintainer. That problem is maybe more related to > > the d-d thread entitled: "Hijacking packages for fun and profit" BoF at > > DebConf > > There are a ton of reasons why Debian may have an older version of > an upstream release. For example, and I hasten to point out that > the following list is by no means exhaustive, and not all of the > possibilities are common:
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