Re: DO NOT REMOVE the lib packages after updates
Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 08:17:24PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>
>> As for security updates that's pretty easy. Remove the old lib. You
>> wouldn't loose anything compared to removing it directly but you keep
>> packages working as long as there is no security bug.
>
> Preposterous. You're suggesting that we release Debian, and then when there
> is a bug, "solve" it by removing the affected package from the archive.
No, that was never ment for a release. Just unstable/testing for a
transitional period.
> The basis for your argument was that keeping the old library would make it
> easier for the packages which depend on them, and you would have just made
> those packages uninstallable by removing it.
MfG
Goswin
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