I am not convinced with the reproducability issues. To me, to reproduce a scientific finding using the exact same versions of all softwares involved is obvious (unless the authors rule out specific side-effects).
So to reproduce paper A from 2015 that used numpy 1.234 in Python 2.654 on a 32-bit Windows system and version abcxyz123 of obscure library X, I would need to recreate those exact conditions.
Whatever happened in the future of the softwares is irrelevant. Bugfixes might change results anyways.
So to reproduce paper A from 2015 that used numpy 1.234 in Python 2.654 on a 32-bit Windows system and version abcxyz123 of obscure library X, I would need to recreate those exact conditions.
Whatever happened in the future of the softwares is irrelevant. Bugfixes might change results anyways.