Why are certain packages present in the quarterly branch but are missing from the latest branch?

[Qtwosix]

I've noticed this weird trend in the packages for version 15.0 where a package may only exist in the quarterly branch and be absent in the latest branch. Qutebrowser, for example.
A package being only in the latest branch and not quarterly makes sense, however the reverse doesn't.

 

[SirDice]

A package being only in the latest branch and not quarterly makes sense, however the reverse doesn't.

Typically the other way around actually, latest contains packages from the main ports branch. That's very much a moving target, with lots of updates and changes being pushed to it every day. Quarterly is quite stable, not many updates, only security or severe breakage fixes, for a three month period.

 

[SirDice]

Just checked, but there's no direct fall-out from www/qutebrowser: https://portsfallout.com/fallout?port=www/qutebrowser$

This typically means one or more of its dependencies failed to build.

 

[T-Aoki]

Just checked, but there's no direct fall-out from www/qutebrowser: https://portsfallout.com/fallout?port=www/qutebrowser$

This typically means one or more of its dependencies failed to build.

Or deleted and waiting for rebuilds as of upgrades (including PORTREVISION bump caused by upgrading of dependencies).

 

[SirDice]

It's a dependency that failed:

Fallout list - FreeBSD pkg-fallout

portsfallout.com

 

[T-Aoki]

Quarterly is quite stable, not many updates, only security or severe breakage fixes, for a three month period.

An addition.
Quarterly is branched from latest once per quarter (3 months).
Not branching from previous quarterly with a plenty of merges from latest.

It wouldn't be the case, but sometimes ports can be deleted on latest but not deleted on quarterly until next branch. In this case, only quarterly has the pkg of the port.