why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

[Grammostola Rosea]

Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> writes:
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>> Could you comment on this? I think it's the best when Ardour will hit 
>> Lenny.
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> New packages are not in scope of the update policy of released debian
> versions. So this is not going to happen.
>
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>> Second option is as a Lenny backport.
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> That's more likely. However only packages in testing are candidates for
> lenny-backports.
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>> Btw. why doesn't Ardour from unstable hit testing? This is normal for 
>> packages in Sid after some time right? Now there is no Ardour in stable 
>> AND testing.
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> http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=ardour
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So this should be fixed, wait till it hit testing and then make an backport?

\r