[GTALUG] question on Debian

[o1bigtenor]

Greetings

Debian has been holding back updates on language updates like GCC for
some 3 or more months at this point. I had been waiting to update my
system hoping that I could get things all together as it were. Today I
bit the bullet and upgraded a whole bunch of stuff.

Anyone know why this, imho important, software is being held with no
updates for so long?

TIA