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by throw0101a 1770 days ago
Testing for one:

* QA to make sure all the interdependencies aline correctly

* making sure the upgrade process runs smoothly, and that going from version X to version Y of some package is well-tested

It also depends on the upstream release cycle of the software package. The distro may wish to use the LTS version software (e.g., OpenJDK, OpenZFS, Django, Zabbix) but developers may wish to be more bleeding edge for new functionality.