ABI stability can block security updates
ABI stability can block security updates
Posted Dec 1, 2025 10:50 UTC (Mon) by taladar (subscriber, #68407)In reply to: ABI stability can block security updates by nim-nim
Parent article: APT Rust requirement raises questions
You are completely ignoring that dynamic linking keeps the entire distro on an old version (or rather often a new, completely untested version somehow considered stable because it is called a "backported fix") because the many less popular programs that most systems don't even install have not been updated yet.