glibc: SA 12.3 085 / SA 12.4 079

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In SA 12.3 085 users are admonished to follow the full
glibc-update-procedure detailed in LFS although only a patch within the
same version was applied.  This seems a bit excessive to me - or is
glibc really that touchy that one cannot even apply a security-patch
without risking to ruin one's system?

SA 12.4 079 seems a bit more relaxed in this respect as it also provides
a patch but doesn't mention the update-procedure.

So - who's right here?  And I'm also wondering - probably naively - why
updating/upgrading glibc always has to be such a drama - after all they
claim that "The GNU C Library is designed to be a backwards compatible,
..."[1].  Thanks.

Rainer


[1] https://sourceware.org/glibc/

-- 
The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.
Richard Feynman

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