OT: dependency and ABI mismanagement

But riddle me this: if the change was so major as to need this ABI change, why doesn't it deliver even a single new feature worth telling the world about in the release notes?

Imagine if libc took this approach "download all new apps, we changed the order of the structure members in struct sigaction because we think the mask should be first" and then next week "sorry, download fresh again, this time we decided stat should put the inode number before the device ID..." and the week after "the arguments to recvmsg are re-ordered, and it was renamed recvmessage, we supply a macro so that your code will still build, but existing binaries no longer work".