Re: Bug#170385: marked as done (libc6 should conflict with wine (<< 0.0.20021007-1) and perhaps other packages)
owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) writes:
> I would be really worried that if we did this that we'd be forced to
> conflict with every package that at some version relied on undefined
> behaviour in glibc. Sadly, I don't think there's a solution to this
> that wouldn't result in just as much grief being caused.
>
> Closing this bug.
Err, this is ridiculous; glibc broke partial upgrades so glibc needs
to fix that (as best it can). There's a precedent for doing this -
even in glibc (see it's existing conflict lines) and I have no idea
what potential "grief" you're referring to that would be created by the
simple fix required for this bug.
Please let's not have "triage" mean "get rid of RC bugs anyway we can,
even it means substituting hand-waving for fixing them".
--
James
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