Re: update_excuses.html

[Jules Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk>]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:29:00PM -0600, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 05:55:53PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> > I can see it means more work for the ftp masters: all such removals
> > would have to be done by hand.  But that job could fall to the release 
> > manager, I guess?
> 
> Excuse me and all, but *gag*.

OK.  

> There are plans to solve this by improving the autobuilders. Having old
> libraries lying around is a feautre for people doing partial upgrades,
> and for cross-distro binary compatability, but it's a bug to have packages
> in the distro relying on them.

So the autobuilders will be jazzed up to recompile packages in testing
against unstable iff there are new libraries?  Cool.

Jules