[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Alacritty

[James McCoy]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 09:10:02AM GMT, Marcelo Franceschini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hope this message finds you well.
> 
> I noticed that the Alacritty package in the testing branch (Trixie) has been
> updated to the latest version (0.13.2), while the version in the stable branch
> (Bookworm) remains at 0.11.0-4. Given the significant differences between these
> versions, I wanted to inquire about what might be blocking Bookworm from
> receiving the latest version.

That's not how stable releases work. Packages are only updated to fix
serious bugs.

Here are some resources on differences between the different Debian
releases and running newer software on a stable release.

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/choosing.en.html#s3.1
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSoftware#Newer_Software_For_Debian_Stable

Cheers,
-- 
James
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