- the specific way in which the versions currently in 14.04 don't meet your needs
Uplift to a new upstream version of a package during the development cycle, as was done for 14.10, is straightforward. Introducing new upstream versions of packages into a 14.04 point release, as you are asking for here, requires specific rationale under the stable release update process, owing to the risk of introducing a regression in a stable release that will affect other use cases for the software.
What's missing is:
- the specific way in which the versions currently in 14.04 don't meet your needs
Uplift to a new upstream version of a package during the development cycle, as was done for 14.10, is straightforward. Introducing new upstream versions of packages into a 14.04 point release, as you are asking for here, requires specific rationale under the stable release update process, owing to the risk of introducing a regression in a stable release that will affect other use cases for the software.