Unstable (sid) is basically rolling-release. If you don't know how to fix a broken system caused by package updates, you don't belong on sid (same goes for test

Unstable (sid) is basically rolling-release. If you don't know how to fix a broken system caused by package updates, you don't belong on sid (same goes for testing, really). Backports (https://backports.debian.org/ https://backports.debian.org/) can relieve some of the age complaints in stable, but packages are pretty selectively included, and some packages (such as KDE or GNOME releases) are never put into backports.