Comment 29 for bug 85751

Johnny Levai wrote:
> Sorry for my incomplete sentence "upload it so we can test it". I didn't
> ment uploading to the Feisty repos, but somewhere so we can download it
> and test it. I don't know how does something get a newer vesion in the
> repos, but I saw something similar in the HPLIP Toolbox case: we had
> some bugs, so the maintainer got built a deb package from the new
> version, uploaded it to his own host or what was it, 12 users or so
> downloaded it, tested it, and reported any problems, or if it was
> working correctly. There were no regressions, and bugs were fixed in
> that release, so he made a report, and the HPLIP Toolbox was updated to
> the new version.

Updates to stable releases are only done when the patch that fixed the
problem can be isolated. There's not the slightest chance that a new
upstream checkout would go anywhere near a stable release (other than
perhaps through backports).