Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

severity 112723 critical
thanks

David Starner <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org> immo vero scripsit

> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:20:31PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > This is, IMO a bogus bug.
> > Go and fix a real bug. There are enough already.
> 
> A package that will do grave damage to your system if installed
> is not a real bug? 

Define grave damage.

But yes, a machine will not boot after installing this package.
Maybe this was a grave bug after all.

I am overloaded at the moment, and if someone can play around
and test this thing, any help would be appreciated.

I am thinking  of something in the line of building the .deb file and installing it somewhere in 
/usr/lib/diskless/




regards,
	junichi

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