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The problem is that this is a bunch of bollocks. But at the same time, that might actually resolve my problem with it as the pain gets fed back.

If one is very very lucky, a library will have accurate changenotes explaining what the version increment actually means, distinguishing between security updates and wanking-over-new-subdependency-for-shiny-irrelevant-features updates.

However, if people are penalised for not wasting their time chasing the latest version of leftpad-with-custom-characters-except-in-locations-which-are-prime-or-square.0.4.3-beta.butnotreally, maybe we'll see shallower dependency trees in the important stuff.

Where 'important' ends up being defined as 'the packages which everyone else gravitates to, and therefore can't be avoided'.

Ideally we'd see security updates for previous major versions of things, for those of us without feature addiction, but that would demand more of the devs producing this crap.