Re: When Debian 4.1 will arrive... will anyone care?
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 05:34:39PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:21:39PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> >> > 1. why is this allegedly a 'benefit'? what's so special about libraries?
> >> > why is a new libc6 or libssl etc more scary than a new apache or php
> >> > etc?
> >> - because it's much harder to go back
> > are you talking theory or practice here? because IN PRACTICE, it isn't.
> > i've upgraded and downgraded packages at will with no particular
> > difficulty. even libc6 on occasion.
> I must admit that I don't have much experience in downgrading. But at
> least in theory it must be easier if it involves less packages...
For my part, I am very much cognizant that I have written maintainer scripts
that do not smoothly support downgrades -- because it would have been
significant extra effort to get it right, and downgrades are not supported.
(Well, there was that one NMU of libapache2-mod-perl2 which supports
downgrading, but that fell out as a freebie when implementing proper support
for all the documented maintainer script use cases in the policy manual. ;)
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