The job of the distributions would be much easier if more software projects would a) consequently use semantic versioning (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, see <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;semver.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;semver.org</a> for details) and b) explicitly and officially designate that they no longer support the version MAJOR.MINOR branch.<p>The latter should be a signal for the distribution to upgrade to a newer and supported upstream version instead of (halfheartedly) trying to support the software themselves.