That's not the sort of "stable" that is meant by "debian stable". It's "stable" as in "doesn't change". Things shouldn't break randomly every couple of months.

That's not the sort of "stable" that is meant by "debian stable". It's "stable" as in "doesn't change". Things shouldn't break randomly every couple of months. You shouldn't wake up one morning and realize that one of your applications needs to be ported to a new API to keep working. If something works today, it should still work in 6 months, while still receiving security fixes. You should be able to reliably narrow down weird bugs without it becoming a heisenbug due to the shifting sands of your underlying software distribution.