In case you can alert them to this, and I know it is a binary distro not source based, but runit which is quite essential to a system based on runit, hasn't been able to build since gcc14 (2-3 versions back Summer 2024) and most build warning of deprecated functions turned to errors.
A maintainer of gentoo which was about to dump runit due to lack of development gathered most patches around, created a few more and runit was patched, no errors, and most build warnings gone.
The author of runit took notice, incorporated most patches into the code, thanked all contributors and issued runit 2.2.0 a new release in more than 10y.

This was done back in Sept 2024, but Artix still shows as source the unbuildable version of the past. Maybe they are waiting for void to upgrade before they do it, but void still hasn't caught up to gcc14, so they don't need to upgrade.

Maybe since you are in touch with them you can convey the message, because 2-3 other artix people I mentioned this to didn't seem to care

The beauty of binaries coming from C and be based on glibc is that they will still run long after revisions of the libraries used to build them. One of the reasons glibc is so huge is because of reverse compatibility.

On the other hand, calling software/systems/distros open source means that you publish the source you build sw from, and if it can no longer build then credibility goes down. In Gentoo everything has to build all the time, 1000s of pkgs

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