New comment by marmeladema on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/36606#issuecomment-1170835350

Comment:
It allows package that detect kernel features at build time to enable more recent functionality. Namely this can help enabling hardware video decoding with ffmpeg/gstreamer and the like.
But more generally, what is the policy for sticking with a relatively old UAPI? If it's because we allow people to install and use (very) old kernel version then we'll never be able to update the UAPI right? That sounds unfortunate