> I'm not sure you can say it's always a bug for Debian's package to be > out-of-sync with the latest upstream release. > > For instance, there is a 2.x release of CPAN's HTML::FromText, which is > a complete rewrite by a new upstream maintainer. However, the new > maintainer freely admits that there's no reason to replace the stable > 1.x version (currently in Debian) with his less-stable 2.x version > unless we need one of his new features (which we don't, AFAIK).
Moreover, upstream will often release several alpha/beta versions before a proper release, and it doesn't follow at all that debian should have every alpha/beta release on its servers. Ben.
