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But then at some point a breaking change in the backing service could be introduced, thus breaking pip2. Distros providing pip2 as part of their LTS will proba

• dragonwriter 6y ago
  Well, yes, it's possible some future change to pyPI could break pip, but that would also break all versions of pip before the change, so there'd have to be a large transition window (because pyPI is how you update pip, too, so if you break existing clients, no one can get the upgrade to the version that supports the backend changes), so that's not going to be sudden and without warning.