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How to notify a package maintainer about upstream updates?

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I am running a pacemaker, pcs, corosync and I've just found that the current ubuntu package "fence_agents" is not as updated as the upstream source by various versions.

Specifically, I'm having problems with "fence_vbox" which the latest version works when the host OS is MacOSX where as the current version in the bionic repository does not (I built it from source to test and the OSX problem was fixed).

According to these other posts Question1 Question2 I should inform the package maintainer of the updates. So my question is, How do I identify and inform said maintainers?

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answered 1 Year ago otputler · Accepted Answer

Generally, you don't need to notify maintainers of new upstream versions. Long ago, Debian built automated tools to do that.

Example for fence-tools: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fence-agents . This page also shows which upstream version is packaged for Debian, and when.

Ubuntu syncs from Debian unstable twice yearly, so Ubuntu 19.04 will soon update to fence-agents 4.3.1-1.

Older releases of Ubuntu will NOT normally receive the newer version. However, if an older version suffers from a serious regression or bug, there is a way to ask for a backport of a newer version that fixes the bug.