Good question and thank you for raising that possibility. I am ignorant here. Of course I'd prefer patches applied asap but... We are almost daily discovering

Good question and thank you for raising that possibility. I am ignorant here. Of course I'd prefer patches applied asap but... We are almost daily discovering upstream changes like this one that breaks something N components removed so our kneejerk response is usually to pin aggressively when found and periodically upgrade deps for a whole component. What are the chances I have some dep somewhere that says python<=3.10.8 and is working today but when that 3.10-slim spec allows 3.10.8 turn into 3.10.9 it will break? That's what happened today for scipy but on the 2nd int and not the third one, because we had started with 3-slim.