Depends on what you mean by "stable". A distro with known-broken packages can be "stable" in a sense that its brokenness is reproducible with every new containe

Depends on what you mean by "stable". A distro with known-broken packages can be "stable" in a sense that its brokenness is reproducible with every new container you spin up, and therefore can be reliably worked around. I've had this happen with minor packages in known-stable distros like CentOS and Ubuntu LTS, too.