> Debian's packages can be quite far behind, for example the current version of Boost is 1.74 where the offical release 1.81 You can always run Debian testing

> Debian's packages can be quite far behind, for example the current version of Boost is 1.74 where the offical release 1.81 You can always run Debian testing or sid if you don't need rock solid stability. If you don't want to do that, you can stay on Debian stable and use the backports repo: https://backports.debian.org/ https://backports.debian.org/