What's wrong with stability, LTS, and not fixing bugs for "compatibility".

[Patrick Schluter]

On Thursday, 8 October 2020 at 10:37:22 UTC, FeepingCreature 
wrote:
> There's recently been discussion of how we can avoid breaking 
> people's code in the process of fixing bugs. I think this 
> approach is fundamentally wrongheaded. Sure, deprecations are 
> good if you can get them, but it should never happen that a bug 
> is unfixed because code depends on it.
>
> [...]

Completely agree (just to overcome the problem you alluded to 
that agreement is normally silent).