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Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by mjg59 on Friday February 19, 2016 @06:38PM (#11137634)
> Then how can you get into the situation that the shipped binary packages can't be built with the shipped toolchain or shipped dependencies

The distribution isn't rebuilt every cycle. If no new source release has been uploaded, the existing binary will be used for the next release.

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Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by lmm on Sunday February 21, 2016 @03:45AM (#11143825)
So if they need to apply a small patch to a given package they'll sometimes discover that it was built 3 versions ago and no longer compiles? Yuck.
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