Package maintenance on Debian

[sirquijote@lavabit.com]

Hi,

I've new to Debian, but already I've found two important packages that
haven't been updated for this OS in a while: Netatalk is almost three
years out of date, and Privoxy seems just as bad (I'm on 3.0.16, and
3.0.18 stable was released at the end of 2011).

I was looking for a stable, well-established and well-supported OS, but
from the looks of things package maintenance may be flagging badly.

Is that fair or have I just chanced upon two significant outliers?  If so
I'm pretty unlucky, considering netatalk and privoxy represent about 66%
of the total packages I've installed post-setup.

PS: I apologise for my tone.  I thought I was well into getting this setup
bedded-down, and my frustration is building.:(