Re: DRAFT v4(final): Debian 2.0 "Hamm" Released
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On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 treacy@debian.org wrote:
> > Q: Why not just use dselect's ftp method like normal?
> > A: This will order your packages incorrectly.
> >
> Changed to:
> Q: Why not just use dselect's ftp method like normal?
> A: This will not order your packages correctly. This could lead
> to your machine being left in an unusable state. Ordinarily
> this is not a problem, but this upgrade involves a major
> change in libc which has special requirements.
>
> Is this acceptable?
Not to me, at least, and I would say (but I don't know) that not to
the person who designed the packaging system either.
I was not a Debian developer when 0.93R6 was released, but it seems that
Pre-Dependencies were created so that an a.out system may be upgraded to
an ELF system without risk (just like we do now with libc5 and libc6), and
so that you can install packages in whatever order without breaking the
system.
Therefore, saying "This could lead to your machine being left in an
unusable state" would be not be fair.
Discouraging the use of dselect as the only method to uprade is one thing.
Saying that the packaging system is not robust enough to ensure the
integrity of the system is another (very different) one.
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