I loaded up the latest XFCE Devuan, and it's running solidly. However, many of the packages I would like for development & libraries are several versions in back of what I need. For example, I can't build XFCE with the standard repos.

I'm not a Debian person, so I wouldn't know, is there a solution for this, like bleeding edge Debian repos somewhere where I can load the latest dev tools without crunching the OS? My solution would be to move to a different distro, but I didn't come here to diss Devuan. Every time in the past I've tried to fight the package management system, it hasn't ended well. So, I just want to know if a solution is already built into the Debian ecosystem that I just don't know about.

Thanks....k