Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 16:09:10 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> How about dpkg doesn't care, like it used to, *except* for really
> important packages (say, essential ones, or priority important, or
> whatever). Since apparently the whole avoid empty files thing is much
> more important for libc than it is for iceweasel, when for one your
> system is hosed and for the other, you have everything required to
> repair. We could even provide an autorepair tool that could e.g. use
> debsums to check installed files and reinstall hosed packages.

I already discarded this option in
<https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15910>. This does not
include important things such as boot loaders, kernel images, or other
things needed for booting.

regards,
guillem