Well the problem is more or less 'death by a thousand paper-cuts'.
Updating a library package does not take a lot of time, but most don't work well with debian/watch so you have to download the image/pull the newest sources and find out.
Updating an implementation is more time consuming and complex. But there are fewer of them of course.
Reacting and triaging of bugs is a major headache. Not only do people always expect the system to DWIM (for example 508922 which I can expect), but the whole C-oriented way of working in Linux often causes problems that are difficult to fix (for example 402508). Then there are of course all the bugs I caused :-(... (for example: 535305)
Just investigating them takes a lot of time, often there is no good solution and the bug just sits there in the BTS, rotting...
Re: Maybe I can help
Updating a library package does not take a lot of time, but most don't work well with debian/watch so you have to download the image/pull the newest sources and find out.
Updating an implementation is more time consuming and complex. But there are fewer of them of course.
Reacting and triaging of bugs is a major headache. Not only do people always expect the system to DWIM (for example 508922 which I can expect), but the whole C-oriented way of working in Linux often causes problems that are difficult to fix (for example 402508). Then there are of course all the bugs I caused :-(... (for example: 535305)
Just investigating them takes a lot of time, often there is no good solution and the bug just sits there in the BTS, rotting...