On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

while for virtualbox Arch Linux does follow upstream, even while there is a critical known USB issue, for Claws Mail, where AFAIK isn't a critical issue, it doesn't follow upstream.

I will go out on a limb here and say if it is flagged out-of-date that implies it is meant to be updated. Or the maintainer would simply re-mark it as up to date. I am sure there could be all kinds of reasons why any specific package could be out of date for a while, without implying that other packages should be left in the same unfortunate condition to match. ;) I try to understand this, but I can't understand it. Is there latitude

for the maintainers to decide what is an official release from upstream and what isn't?

Obviously the maintainer hasn't gotten around to updating it yet, which is why the package was left with a big question mark over its head for a month. (For a given value of question mark, anyway.) If the maintainer went "nanana I think it's up to date anyway", then maybe that would indicate it isn't following upstream, and we should all start panicking.