Updates

[donald jones]

How do you maintain current copies of software? I have run apt-get to
make sure YDL is up-to-date, but many of the packages are behind current
releases, some significantly so (Mozilla and gcc). Are people manually
downloading source and building updates themselves, or waiting until YDL
provides updates via apt-get? Are there other alternatives, or are we up
a creek until YDL provides updates?

My primary concern is how do I make sure that I have updated software to
account for security related releases.