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