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Upgrading merely to upgrade is not good engineering practice. If you expect to receive no additional benefits from the upgrade then it is probably not justifie

Upgrading merely to upgrade is not good engineering practice. If you expect to receive no additional benefits from the upgrade then it is probably not justified.

YetAnotherNick 3y ago
In ideal world yes. But most of the open source packages fixes security issue only for the last 1-2 major versions. Which means upgrading just to upgrade is a good practice as you don't have to worry about package changes at the moment of upgrading to fix security issue.
userbinator 3y ago
Unfortunately, there's also a lot of parroting that upgrading is a "best" practice.
- adra 3y ago
  COBOL was great until it wasn't.
  - citrin_ru 3y ago
    Would not say that COBOL is still great (never wrote it) but the main problems in COBOL horror stories usually mismanagement and underinvestment, not the technology.