And when developers really need current versions of libraries/tools on an LTS distro, the solution is to recompile these tools by hand. And you end up with a Frankenstein system mixing an old base with multiple versions of monkeypatched, hand-compiled stuff.
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When I see people's backward compatibility hacks I can't help but think "that's bad code." OTOH, if they say "that paid for my kid's braces" then you can't argue with that.
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