It's something I've never given any though to before, but when one of our QA folks asked me this yesterday I couldn't give them a good enough answer. And to be honest, I have no idea how to start even searching for how a security update to a package as simple as bzip could affect the stability of our environment.
In the past, I've always been able to say "it just does" and, of course, nothing has ever happened to even bring stability into question. But as we're nearing the delivery of a large chunk of our project, they're asking for a bit more.
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