> Its unrealistic to closely follow the development of every package you are using. It's very realistic and viable for huge corps with infinite pockets for dev

> Its unrealistic to closely follow the development of every package you are using. It's very realistic and viable for huge corps with infinite pockets for dev budgets. I worked only a handful of times for huge corps. The better ones had extremely hygienic and structured approach to relying on open-source, namely they were inspecting CHANGELOGs and were testing carefully before each version bump. And they were quite right to do so. It should go without saying that when you get stuff for free you get zero guarantees. You gotta guarantee things yourself. Today it works, tomorrow a new version comes out that might break your software. Update at your own discretion and pace. RE: your last line, if you truly need a piece of software but its maintainers change things too often then, well, it's time to roll up your sleeves and write your own. Again, huge corps can afford that.