> Because it's the stable branch, and it gets no major version updates for anything after release, nor any new packages, just bugfixes to the current version.

> Because it's the stable branch, and it gets no major version updates for anything after release, nor any new packages, just bugfixes to the current version. No, Debian stable doesn't get bugfixes, only if those bugfixes are for security issues! (or some really severe bugs) Example: Debian's Python is still 3.4.2, not 3.4.9!