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Greg K Nicholson wrote:
> Toby Smithe:
>> There seems to be some confusion here: regardless of the content of the
>> version string, bug fixes from upstream will have been ported back to
>> the current Ubuntu package. The two releases are functionally identical,
>> the only difference is the content of a string.
> 
> So we're actually getting 2.4.1 (or something very much like it), but 
> labelled “2.4.0rc3”?

Precisely. Often Ubuntu packages might include patches from upstream
that haven't yet been made part of a release. See Emmet's review for the
exact details in this case.

Dean
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