From the article: >Beyond Kubernetes, web browsers clearly fall into this category. Distributors have generally given up on trying to backport patches to older

From the article: >Beyond Kubernetes, web browsers clearly fall into this category. Distributors have generally given up on trying to backport patches to older browser releases; they just move their users forward to new releases when they happen. The resources to do things any other way just do not exist. Exceptions are already made for browsers, but they're browsers. They're practically essential to 99% of graphical debian installs and don't expose the really nasty unstable bits (like V8's api surface) to the world. I doubt the debian TC will make that exception for devops software with much less mindshare and a public API surface that is the software, at least not on the stable channel.