The way to deal with that is pick a few standard versions. Businesses do that all the time - my workplace is standardized on RHEL 6. Then you release a client

The way to deal with that is pick a few standard versions. Businesses do that all the time - my workplace is standardized on RHEL 6. Then you release a client and say "We know it runs on this flavor of Linux. You're welcome to try running it on other stuff, but if it doesn't work that's on you."