Sometimes there may be a new version out, but the maintainer needs to test
and make sure it's working as expected. It may need a patch to work
correctly, or it may have a major flaw and every other distro is also
avoiding updating to the latest version. The flagging system, I feel at
least, is more so there for users to nudge a maintainer if they haven't
updated it. Often people can wait a few days after the upstream release for
the new version, and if they can't, they should be using the -git version
anyway.

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