Maintenance updates mostly need a bug to make it possible to track progress and regressions. And you can use this bug for that. E.g. have in the spdlog.changes: Add custom log formatting (boo#1135353) The other part is risk-assessment, that it should bring more good than bad, but since there were no other packages using this before, that seems fine. and then you do osc sr openSUSE:Leap:15.0:Update and it might get inherited into 15.1