On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:08:03AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 05:37:51PM -0700, Keegan Quinn wrote: > > > > Sure, every now and then a badly-broken package makes it in for a > > day or two. This seems to be far less harmful than the massive > > headache that treating 'testing' as a usable release seems to be > > causing. > Something that would make unstable much more useful is if dpkg had a > reliable "undo" capability. It's.... unpleasant.... when you update a > broken package, and large number of packages break, and you can't > necessarily find a copy of the older, non-broken version of the > package to re-install. If you're not a developer, you don't have > access to archives, so your choice is to either go back to the stable > or testing version of the package, or try to find a mirror that still > has the n-1 release of the unstable package. It seems to me that this is one of the reasons for the existence of snapshot.debian.net. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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