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@galgalesh Thanks again for your answer but your approach is quite idealistic, because:

1. Contact the publishers… I contacted several publishers/git maintainers/etc for bugs/problems, including LLVM, Microsoft and very very very few answered or were open to change. Most of ones who answered just said NO, although my proposals were voted by many people. So I doubt this works in practice.

2. I love auto-updates as long as they don’t break something. For example I use VirtualBox quite a lot and every after EVERY major update, they break something: video, sound, keyboard input…Sometimes my old VM does not work, is very very painful. Therefore I am using a stable VirtualBox version now OR, before updating it, I do a backup.
   Another example: Ubuntu broke DejaVu rendering in 16.04: (fixed in 18.04) https://askubuntu.com/questions/866808/dejavu-font-rendered-bad-on-ubuntu-16-04

I work in security so I understand your concerns but my experience with Linux packages is that everytime they break something. Every single time. That’s why APT is more conservative and does not update.

I can understand this seems a little daunting. This work would traditionally be done by distribution maintainers. The Ubuntu developers publish multiple versions of GCC, for example and make special security update releases for all software. With Snap packages, this suddenly becomes the task of th…