Re: [Trisquel-users] Outdated Trisquel Packages

[onpon4]

Well, consider GNOME, for example. By default, Trisquel uses GNOME Fallback,  
which was removed from I think GNOME 3.6 before being re-introduced as GNOME  
Flashback some time after GNOME 3.8 was released (I don't know if Flashback  
is available in 3.10 or not). So if Trisquel had been keeping GNOME  
up-to-date rather than sticking with GNOME 3.4, GNOME would break for most  
users of Trisquel.

Other than that, getting new versions of programs onto the repo without  
breaking something is nontrivial. It makes sense to do this with certain  
programs, such as Abrowser, but there just isn't enough manpower to do  
backports for every non-essential software update, so some software is going  
to stay at the old version until a new release of the system.