Working update sitting in testing

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 08:08:05AM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> zathura 2.6 was released even before F20 was released but the
> maintainer appears not to want to release it on F20 and will keep it
> at 2.4 all through F21 perhaps, since rawhide appears to be F22? Why? No
> one knows. These policies appear to be completely arbitrary.

The policy is at

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Stable_Releases

and it does leave a lot of individual discretion to the package maintainers,
who are a diverse bunch and tend to have different attitudes.

Often it helps if you can put specific reason you need or want a newer
version. "It's got a bigger number" isn't necessarily compelling, but if it
fixes a bug or provides a feature you need, that might change the equation.
And of course the package maintainer should know this, but it's helpful to
note if you know that the update doesn't have backwards-compatibility
issues or major UI changes.

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