On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:04:48AM -0600, Zed Pobre wrote:
> > > Something is seriously wrong, if a single bug that affects a single
> > > arch can stop everyone else from forward.
> >
> > You obviously didn't read all of aj's message. How about you postpone
> > your bitching along these lines until you've helped fix all the RC bugs
> > in gcc 3.2 and glibc 2.3.1 that *do* affect i386?
>
> Not to defend Riku here, but I would point out that a mechanism to
> shunt very buggy packages into experimental and replace them with a
> previous known working version from snapshots would be a very useful
> thing, and would have severely cut back on the amount of damage caused
> by things like the recent libc6 transition.
> And no, I don't have the skill or the time to write such a
> mechanism. Please don't suggest that that removes any validity or
> value of the suggestion.
This way the version of packges installed will bounce back and forward
again. And I'm sure there is more problems I cannot see.
AH! If that package is a lib, you must also move all packages that
depends on that lib also back.
--
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
jsogo@debian.org
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