Oldstable? Abandoned Packages? Alternatives?

["Thomas H. George" <xyz@spininternet.com>]

I just discovered the oldstable distribution.  What are the implications 
of this?  For example, for years I have used cbb (checkbook balancer) 
which I find is in the oldstable distribution but not in Sarge.  Does 
this mean I should search for an alternate package?  Is there a good 
one?  I found gnofin and gnucash in Sarge.  I don't need double entry 
bookkeeping and gnofin seems to lack the report generation features of 
cbb.  What's the plan?

Tom George