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Why not put that in the title, Mr. Hoyt?
Every dependency you don’t update is a zero day waiting to happen. All software carries risk.
In the same breath you're advocating updating without checking, and saying why that's an issue. You ... realize that, right?
You're so close to realising the reason enterprise distros do backports.
Uh… no. That’s not what I said. I said there’s risk in both updating and not updating. You need to do the assessment to decide which one is best for the situation.