Basically, yes. While for a lot of software, you can use backports to get a more recent version, this doesn't apply to software being part of the toolchain (gcc

Basically, yes. While for a lot of software, you can use backports to get a more recent version, this doesn't apply to software being part of the toolchain (gcc, python, ...) because it would affect the rest of the archive. o You are left with third-party repositories until we come with another solution, like Ubuntu PPA.