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They should only be years behind given very unlucky timing, ie, upstream releases a new version right after the stable feature freeze. Whatever the latest vers
by Wowfunhappy 4y ago
They should only be years behind given very unlucky timing, ie, upstream releases a new version right after the stable feature freeze.
Whatever the latest version is at the time of Debian's feature freeze, that will be the version for the life of that Debian release. That's basically the point of Debian—the world will never change out from under you.
- sigio 4y agoAnd with debian's release cycle being a lot shorter these days, most packages should be more then new enough. If needed you can get kernel-packages and stuff like browsers from backports or some 3rd party repositories tailored to bullseye.
- ac29 4y ago> They should only be years behind given very unlucky timing, ie, upstream releases a new version right after the stable feature freeze. Literally the first package I looked up is shipping a January 2020 version in bullseye despite freezes not starting until 2021. And yes, there were additional stable releases in 2020.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoWhat package? There's probably a story there.
- ac29 4y agompv, a reasonably popular media player.