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by aragilar 510 days ago
It's also effectively what the big cloud vendors do with their monorepos. This makes sense when you have upstreams which are slow at upgrading (e.g. it looks like Debian is upgrading packages packages using older bootstrap to bootstrap v5 across the board, and such fixes get pushed upstream; there's also tooling to watch new releases, so Debian's tooling effectively acts like a system-wide dependabot).