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Re:Debian discusses vendoring again by curt15 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @09:44AM (#25762542)
>It does not mean “does not crash”; it means “is inert, unchanging” which is important for enterprises that absolutely cannot risk that something stop working on an upgrade.

But would enterprises accept being forever stuck with any bugs that aren't security related? Even RHEL backports patches from newer kernels while maintaining kABI.

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Re:Debian discusses vendoring again by Blikkentrekker on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:06AM (#25763843)
We're talking about entitites that run COBOL code from the 60s and are too afraid to update or replace it, for fear that something break.

There's a reason why most enterprise-oriented systems take inertia quite seriously — it has been something their customers greatly desire who are losing considerable capital on even minor downtime.

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