Re: potato late, goals for woody (IMHO)
On Mon, 1 May 2000, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, 01 May 2000 12:48:39 +0200, you wrote:
> >Running potato since December 1999 on 3 of my production servers and even on 2
> >of my production firewalls.
>
> Same here. Additionally, we are of course exclusively doing all
> development on potato since we hope that potato will be released
> faster than we develop.
>
> I'd like to see apt being able to install only packages that have been
> released at least five days ago, assuming that a package that gets
> older than five days can't be _that_ badly broken. If that feature
> would be available, I'd have all my production machines potatoed asap.
No, one example: The last upload for lynx was on Feb 4. There's a
"critical" bug since Feb 28 that there are buffer overflows in lynx
(there will be a new upload of lynx soon). That's much more than five
days. The same could happen with other packages.
> Greetings
> Marc
cu,
Adrian
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