I'm not sure how per-distro (or distro-version) builds fix the problem, unless you're committing to continuously produce new builds for future distro versions t

I'm not sure how per-distro (or distro-version) builds fix the problem, unless you're committing to continuously produce new builds for future distro versions to account for ABI changes. If you can do that, you can also fix issues with static linking if/when the come up.