Now may not be a good time for new upstream releases of existing packages
New upstream versions uploaded now generally won't get into Jessie, as
the now-required 10-day delay is longer than the time remaining before
freeze.
As the preferred way to do bug fixes during the freeze is to upload them
to unstable, having a new upstream version sitting in unstable during a
freeze can prevent you from fixing bugs in the old version in testing,
and hence may not be a good idea:
https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html
You can avoid this by using experimental for new upstream versions at
this time. (Entirely new packages, ie not previously in Debian at all,
are OK: they won't get into Jessie either, but they won't be in the way
by being in unstable.)
Please don't be offended or put off: you're not the only ones who didn't
notice, and it's not forbidden, just not something you want to do
without being aware of the consequences.
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