I would say producing 6.0.4 versions of those packages is not important. At most you are behind by a few library entries, and it would make everybody subscribed to the PPA generate download traffic which is significant for the 3D models. 6.0.5 packages will supersede them anyway.
Significant download traffic? With annual global internet traffic now in the zettabytes thanks to VoD, just how “significant” is a few megabytes for updated 3D models? And 6.0.5 could be months away.
Newcomers to Linux and/or KiCad who have read the dire warnings about serious issues with 6.0.3 may find it worrying to see multiple packages being installed, all tagged with that version.
Not everybody has the luxury of broadband. And the 3D models package is several hundreds of MB, if you check. I doubt anybody will notice the patch level discrepancy. Sometimes you almost have to beat people up to get them to report their version.
The ideal situation is for the package updates to be transparent to the user, the manager just notifies that there is a newer version and it’s accepted. My distro gets dozens of updated packages a week. If you asked me what patch level such and such a package is up to I couldn’t tell your of the top of my head. The delay in 6.0.4 for Ubuntu was a hiccup that did not happen to other distros and platforms.
Now if course if all distros implemented delta packages and packagers used it, there would be no download volume issues.
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