Based FOSS developer asks “Who killed Aaron Swartz?”
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When you include 3rd party code, you pin it to a specific version number.
So when it changes with a new version, there are no sudden surprises. You apply due diligence when upgrading versions of 3rd party code.
At the most basic level, this means having good automated tests that quickly point out any regressions in behavior.
All sane people already do this.
The ramifications here are simple ... Idiots that have zero testing, and blindly pull latest versions and go straight to production without any sort of QA pipeline, get burnt, again. This would happen often, as hundreds of 3rd party libs change several times a day.
Nothing to see here.