> I've watched many applications hold up adding new features that require newer dependencies that don't exist in debian stable To me this seems like a problem

> I've watched many applications hold up adding new features that require newer dependencies that don't exist in debian stable To me this seems like a problem for the maintainers of the Debian package for that application, and not for the developers of the application itself. Why should the libraries available in one of the many possible linux distros hold up what features the application developers implement? Debian package maintainers are sometimes the application developers themselves, but this doesn't seem like it should be a problem for folks who just write software.