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Hmm, I don't understand your question. Are you surprised by Debian's packages being outdated (they're always outdated) or by it being that outdated (they're usually that outdated)...?
Debian is a very slow-moving distro. When a developer releases a new version of their software, it may very well take years until it arrives in Debian Stable.
Debian is a static release distribution. Whenever a stable release of Debian comes, it's package repositories are made frozen. This means you cannot get the latest version until the next stable release.
There's a work around of this, you could switch to the unstable or the testing repositories, which get latest package releases with minimum delay
Thanks!
Change repos to testing or unstable.