Beside this basic viewing there are is a bughandling workflow argument. I am not in touch with the developers of LibreOffice, but in my experience it is much easier to get attention to upstream bugs, when they occure on the verry latest version. So, the benefit here could be seen as that reports on Ubuntu LibreOffice have a increased propability to get handeled as upstream reports.
-------------------------------------------- It may be also hard to explain for users of http://www.ubuntu.com/business why there is not the very latest on. ** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1022078 Title: libreoffice 3.5.3 in quantal while libreoffice 3.5.4 in precise To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1022078/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs