Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken
'Rob Browning wrote:'
>
>Scott Ellis <storm@gate.net> writes:
>> If you don't upgrade anything that deals with utmp to libc6, you
>> don't have any problems).
>
>The problem is that maybe *you* know what packages those are, but most
>users expect to be able to upgrade without major system services
>breaking if dpkg/dselect doesn't indicate that there's a problem.
>Your approach would cause silent failures.
The current approach causes silent failures. Anyone who purchased an
official Debian CD will corrupt their utmp by upgrading to libc6. Has
everyone looked at my proposed solution carefully? Does it really
help?
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