Upgrading catkin to 0.7.16 on ROS Kinetic

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I ran into an issue while trying to compile with catkin which was recently solved and merged to the distro's kinetic-devel branch. It is issue #955, which was added to catkin's 0.7.15 release about a week ago, which was followed by 0.7.16 a few days later. As the issue is now solved, I thought that just upgrading the package would let me compile without problem. However, after running

apt-get update

I checked the latest version of ros-kinetic-catkin and got the following

sudo apt-cache policy ros-kinetic-catkin

ros-kinetic-catkin:
  Installed: 0.7.14-0xenial-20180809-132632-0800
  Candidate: 0.7.14-0xenial-20180809-132632-0800
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.14-0xenial-20180809-132632-0800 500
        500 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

which indicates that the latest version is 0.7.14. However, the ros/catkin api webpage clearly shows "catkin 0.7.16 documentation" on top. I would like to upgrade to version 0.7.16 without compiling from source, so:

• Do I have to make some dependency changes in order to update the package?
• Shouldn't apt-get update && apt-get upgrade ros-kinetic-catkin do it or is there something I'm missing?

As a side note, I'm a bit confused as how the repository and the dependencies relate to each other, so maybe it's just that the dependencies do not point to the latest relase? Correct me if I'm wrong as this is a field I know nothing about...