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#24
Reasons are multiple, but from my perspective the most important one is 4.2 has a lot of bugs. If you try to compile most of latest libtcod using programs for example you end up having to rewrite lots of code. 4.3 and above compile without any problems (at least for libtcod, guessing 4.6 will fix even more). Autobuilder for repos uses 4.2 so porting is not easy using SDK build-essentials package. If 4.6 got into the repos you could then use it to build packages. With time more and more packages will be unbuildable on 4.2, so this will prolong N900 life immensely (until we hit a wall when newer libc/libstdc++ and rest is needed which would require updating whole maemo, which in turn with closed source components might be impossible)