A Debian suggestion

[Robert Boyer <robertstephenboyer@gmail.com>]

Dearest Wonderful Debian Developers,

For all the great systems that Debian supports, here is a suggestion,
probably idiotic.

It might sometimes possibly be to the benefit of a user and developer for
the user to 'move on', possibly only temporarily, beyond the 'stable'
version of something.

It might be good if I could, for example,

  sudo apt-get install xacl2,
  sudo atp-get install xgcl,
  sudo apt-get install xsbcl, or
  sudo apt-get install xemacs

which command, without affecting my stable current whatever, would give me
access to the latest and greatest and perhaps riskiest
version of acl2, gcl, sbcl, or emacs.  From xwhatever I could then perhaps
send developers more useful bug reports.  There seems to be as much as a
two year delay in the movement of bug fixes to 'stable'.

I realize that I am way, way over my head.  I am extremely grateful to
Debian and its developers.  I do not
understand how they do what they do.  They have made one of the worst
nightmares of my life, software installation,
go away.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.

With Highest Regards,

Bob