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Re: pyfakefs: Outdate version was migrated today

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On Fri, 9 Dec 2022, c.buhtz@posteo.jp wrote:

> Hello folks,
> my question is not critic but just learning purpose. Because in the Debian 
> universe I always assume that there is a good reason behind each activity, no 
> matter if I understand it or not.
>
> Here is one I don't understand.
> Today (9th December '22) pyfakefs 4.6.3 was migrated [1] into testing. But 
> the latest stable release at upstream is 5.0.0 release two months ago [2].
>
> So why does a Debian package maintainer invest time and resources into 
> packaging an out dated version of a package?

The version that migrated to testing on 9 December was just a bug fix, see 
[3].  Version 4.6.3 was initially packaged on 12 September [4].

Scott

[3] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1393666/accepted-python-pyfakefs-463-3-source-into-unstable/
[4] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1361844/accepted-python-pyfakefs-463-1-source-into-unstable/

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pyfakefs: Outdate version was migrated today c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2022-12-09 21:40 +0100
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