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by kevin_thibedeau 3270 days ago
In the case of Debian it's an asset since you can run on stable without being stuck with horribly outdated, hard to upgrade Python packages.
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falcolas 3270 days ago
The case could be made for choosing to stick with well tested and battle hardened libraries instead of bleeding edge, backward-compatibility breaking releases.

Virtual environments tend to solve the problem in either case.

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