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by debiandev 1976 days ago
Debian Developer here. Backporting fixes to tenths of thousands of packages is already a huge amount of (thankless) work.

But it's still done - as long as there's usually one version of a given library in the whole archive.

Imagine doing that for e.g. 5 versions of a given library, embedded in the sources of 30 different packages.

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I'm sorry to hear that it's thankless. Thank you for doing it. It is one of the pillars of my sanity, and I am not exaggerating.