Of course, everybody wants to have an LTS release of every piece of software they depend on, that "just works" for all their use cases [1], and that somebody el

Of course, everybody wants to have an LTS release of every piece of software they depend on, that "just works" for all their use cases [1], and that somebody else maintains for many years, like magic. The problem is, nobody wants to pay for its maintenance, hence it does not exist [2]. In the FOSS world, nobody is entitled to a pony. Also it's rather ironic that it's an OpenBSD developer wanting this, considering http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/long-term-support-considered-harmful http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/long-term-support-consid... - how does that reasoning not apply to compilers? [1] including of course the all-important Motorola 88k back-end! [2] with very few exceptions: RHEL, SLES