Re: how to treat upgrade bugs that only affect unstable->unstable?
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> That raises a philosophical question:
>
> If a bug was in a prerm script in unstable for 7 days, but never
> appeared in stable or testing, should we include cruft in present and
> future prerm versions to work around it?
>
> Or, put another way: a prerm is designed to run with the package
> version it is shipped with. To what lengths should it go to do the
> right thing when dpkg runs it with previous versions of the package?
It depends only on the ammount of damage the bug causes.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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