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All you need is to run the build in a VM (a container/chroot also works almost always since the Linux kernel maintainers are committed to not breaking userspace).

It's not done usually because it's also very useful to take advantage of new language and library features and all software is supposed to not break compatibility with new versions, so if there is an issue due to upgrading it's because an incompetent maintainer failed at their job.