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Re: db1/glibc debacle



On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 02:39:59PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 01:37:21PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > If unpacking everything and running objdump is the way to go, that's    
> > the way to go. At the very least libc6 should Conflict: with all the 
> > packages it breaks outright to help make sure people's systems don't
> > unpredictably break when people do partial upgrades.
> 
> Note that Lintian is designed to have exactly this capability.
> Is the lintian-on-the-archive site still running somewhere?

In theory. I believe it was having problems with incremental scans,
which made it rather expensive to run; Joy could probably tell you more.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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