Comment 30 for bug 778520

Vak, if you need more recent versions, look for a howto to set up a debian (desktop) box with testing or sid.

These releases contain recent software with continious updates, while still being conservative on the finishing of features, and not just dumping them on users and forgetting about them.

After all, ubuntu copies and releases a debian version from before it is "stable", but seems to stop adding updates after releasing that premature version.