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Re:Red Hat RHEL 9 release by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday May 12, 2022 @02:29PM (#31358227)
Oh, I see. Yes, that's true, although it would take a rather lot of resources; for a decade of support, you basically need devs who can support each package in the distro independently of upstream. Still, if you're willing to pay for it I expect there are companies who will offer that support.
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Re:Red Hat RHEL 9 release by phendrenad2 on Thursday May 12, 2022 @05:31PM (#31360357)
That, or, package maintainers could decide to maintain their packages for 10+ years. That at least distributes the workload among the package maintainers. Unfortunately, most package maintainers don't like spending time backporting bug fixes etc. and would rather be making shiny new releases (and can you blame them?)
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Re:Red Hat RHEL 9 release by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday May 12, 2022 @09:50PM (#31362329)
> and can you blame them?

Exactly; almost nobody wants to maintain old versions like that. For most people, the fun part is writing new stuff, and maintaining old stuff without breaking backwards compatibility is particularly annoying to put up with. I certainly couldn't blame anyone, particularly who was just publishing software for free, for not wanting to deal with all that.

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