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Re:LTS == 15 Years Not 5 by BadBadJellyBean on Thursday August 03, 2023 @04:50AM (#36983134)
There is a very good reason. It is hard to split bugfixes from features. Sometimes it is even very hard to fix a bug without changing the behaviour. It is unreasonable to expect everyone to backport their fixes to all old versions.
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Re:LTS == 15 Years Not 5 by rightbyte on Thursday August 03, 2023 @11:18AM (#36987088)
Ye if the code diverge much, ye. Depends on how mature the project is or how well thought out dependencies it has.
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