This "new" version was released October 31, 2006 and it's considered the only stable version by the upstream developers. GRASS 6.0.2 is tagged as "old" by the GRASS development team. Keeping for another 6 months an old version in the official repositories doesn't make much sense IMHO.
This also would provide an easy answer to all those who ask "Which is the best GNU/Linux distro for running GRASS?". -- upstream version in 6.2.1 please update https://launchpad.net/bugs/87264 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
