Re: speeding up the release cycle (was Re: Debian's problems)

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:52:34AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > 
> > And don't forget to also remove all packages that depend on it so
> > as to not breaks dependencies.  That could be a lot when libc6 or
> > Perl breaks.
> 
> perl or libc6 will never be removed, even if they have release critical
> bugs. Same for dpkg. There are some holy cows we can't slaughter.

You are right, of course.  Might mean the threat of package
removal would only be made to fairly self-contained packages (We
wouldn't remove `optional' gs either I'd bet).

Peter