renedudfield,
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Reminded that packages don't support patch number pins for dependencies, so things break as time progresses MUCH more because packages are upgraded to breaking new major/minor versions.

You can't specify a major version to rely on. Additionally, because this isn't supported few packages actually even care.

A 1.0.0 depends on B>=1.0.0. Now several months pass. You had pinned A=1.0.0.

Now, B releases 1.0.1 1.0.2, 1.1.0, and 2.0.0.
Which means A==1.0.0 is broken.

Work arounds? /1

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