> > - Debian's packages can be quite far behind, for example the current version of Boost is 1.74 where the offical release 1.81 > Boost 1.81 is in experimenta

> > - Debian's packages can be quite far behind, for example the current version of Boost is 1.74 where the offical release 1.81 > Boost 1.81 is in experimental; download the package if you want it. 1.74 was a year old when bullseye was released, and there had been at least three boost releases in that time. PHP is another example. From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28180482 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28180482 : > PHP 8.0 is 10 months old, and debian’s upcoming release will be upgrading from 7.3 to 7.4, which will make 7.4 the standard for the next ~3 years (even though it only gets upstream support for 1 more year)… There is plenty of software this happens to in Debian, and Debian isn't the only distro this happens with. We need distros maintaining stability as must as we need distros moving fast and breaking things, and everywhere in between. It just means that some distros might not be an exact fit for all use cases. And that's fine.