That's why your build pipeline alerts you when tests no longer work, and then you have a release of the previous build still available for download at any time. This is how containers are released!
Sure. It still is burdensome, though. Now there are lots of nightly build from old projects that break at random times and require developer attention.
There's a lot of software that ends up lasting for decades, through multiple OS platform refreshes. Normally there's a small platform/OS team that gets to slog through gardening that mess while everyone else is long gone.
