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by WorldMaker 777 days ago
People already do that with vendorizing, too. It was noted the other week on HN of someone "collateralizing" their tech debt by vendorizing a dependency to remove CVE/deprecation/obsolescence warnings for a Rust dependency with no update path: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827645

A metric like this can't keep you honest (just about no matter how you design it, people will find loopholes), but it can help honest people document their needs.