hey, On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:49:13AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I see the same three options. Joey has said he is working on a final woody > point release for the last weekend in May; you'll probably need to > coordinate with him and get something uploaded soon if you want to try for > this option. okay, i'm going to make an upload to stable-proposed-updates at some point this weekend, after i've verified that i can make such a fix. i'll then leave it joey to decide whether or not it warrants being included. > 3 does not sound so bad to me; it's arguably user error anyway to replace a > package-provided directory with a symlink in this manner, so having a corner > case of "partially upgraded woody system and installing mysql-server-4.1 and > messed with a package directory" is not the end of the world... that's my thoughts. anyone who jumps from mysql-server in woody to mysql-server-4.1 in a completely new release of debian without dist-upgrading their system first should *expect* for there to be a problem, and at the very least we've gone out of our way to identify it and tell them what they have to do to fix it :) sean --
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