Sure, but these are development dependencies we are talking about. Running old versions of these dependencies block your projects. But it isn't limited to self-developed software, quite often for of the shelve software you run at the same problem.

To each their own, but this is the reason I advice newcomers to stay away from Debian based distro's. I don't intend a distro flamewar, it works perfect for `boring old and feature complete software´ like Dovecot.

To add: containers would alleviate a good part of these concerns, but the stupid thing here is that precisely that is broken for up-to-date podman workflows.