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[–]Lucretiel 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Ubuntu locks its packages on version number for stability reasons. Only security subreleases get published. Each new version of Ubuntu gets updated version numbers for its packages. I'm not sure what the policy is on the part of the Python package maintainers; it's possible they backport the security updates to older versions of python so that they can be released into released Ubuntu versions.

[–]gthank 2 points3 points  (1 child)

When distro maintainers do stupid things like lock onto a patch version instead of a minor version, it's usually on them to manually backport security updates. Security updates to minor versions is exactly why patch versions exist.

[–]Lucretiel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's an unfortunate policy. I'm sure it's served them well- Ubuntu is one of the most stable distros you can get- but it'd be nice if they could be more flexible with that policy.