Re: security in testing

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

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.

There is always snapshot.debian.org, or whatever the link of it is.
Anybody can access that, but again, it is not widely publicized.

Friendly,

Sven Luther