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Re: Bug#116727: Problem with libexpat & php



On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote:

> So let me get this straight: you reopen these without even really knowing for sure
> whether it actually is still a problem?  Next time please do your homework better.
>
> The fix is in sid and waits for transfer to woody.  The in your opinion krude hack
> has been proposed by Anthony (Towns) himself.  Since some of the dependent packages
> already had been rebuild against the "wrong" version we had a mixed situation and
> providing the symlink was the quickest way to keep things going astray further.
>
> This all has been on debian-devel.

This is all well and good, but I would not want to ship woody with this crude
hack in place.

This hack may fix a problem, but the hack itself is another serious bug, that
needs to be fixed.



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