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Why is the Debian testing version of a package is behind the stable version?

Having 2 Debian installations - one on testing and the other on stable - on two different machines, I noticed that the version for chromium in testing is 47.0.2526.80-1~deb8u1 (testing on debian package website) while the one in stable is 48.0.2564.116-1~deb8u1 (stable on debian pakage website). So testing seems to be behind stable.

Because testing is supposed to have more recent versions of the same package, or at least the same version, why does this happen? Do I misunderstand something about testing distrbutiondistribution?

Edit: seems strange for testing to skip a version, and I have noticed the discrepancy for at least 24 hours. I would have expected that testing would have been updated in this time. Is someone messing/tampering with the package maybe?

Having 2 Debian installations - one on testing and the other on stable - on two different machines, I noticed that the version for chromium in testing is 47.0.2526.80-1~deb8u1 (testing on debian package website) while the one in stable is 48.0.2564.116-1~deb8u1 (stable on debian pakage website). So testing seems to be behind stable.

Because testing is supposed to have more recent versions of the same package, or at least the same version, why does this happen? Do I misunderstand something about testing distrbution?

Having 2 Debian installations - one on testing and the other on stable - on two different machines, I noticed that the version for chromium in testing is 47.0.2526.80-1~deb8u1 (testing on debian package website) while the one in stable is 48.0.2564.116-1~deb8u1 (stable on debian pakage website). So testing seems to be behind stable.

Because testing is supposed to have more recent versions of the same package, or at least the same version, why does this happen? Do I misunderstand something about testing distribution?

Edit: seems strange for testing to skip a version, and I have noticed the discrepancy for at least 24 hours. I would have expected that testing would have been updated in this time. Is someone messing/tampering with the package maybe?

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Why the Debian testing version of a package is behind the stable version?

Having 2 Debian installations - one on testing and the other on stable - on two different machines, I noticed that the version for chromium in testing is 47.0.2526.80-1~deb8u1 (testing on debian package website) while the one in stable is 48.0.2564.116-1~deb8u1 (stable on debian pakage website). So testing seems to be behind stable.

Because testing is supposed to have more recent versions of the same package, or at least the same version, why does this happen? Do I misunderstand something about testing distrbution?