Re: kill, kill, kill...
Hi,
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 10:33:50PM -0700, David Wright wrote:
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> >I think problem is Debian "testing" is not released but too stable. So
> >people tends to dive in without knowing how to deal with broken
> >packages. After all it is testing, we need to know how to handle broken
> >package :)
>
> This brings out a bit of hypocracy in the typical Debian advocacy
> argument. To the argument "Debian stable is too old", we reply "you can
> always use testing or unstable". But now to those wanting to use testing
> and unstable, we reply "you are not advanced enough".
Very true. I think Debian has limitation.
> I am certainly not an advanced Debian package manager, but I am an
> incredibly advanced Unix user by any measure. I think it's a little
> disingenuous to claim that people like me shouldn't be using unstable.
You sounds like one who can run mix of testing and unstable.
> My complaint wasn't that a particular package was broken, but that the
> package management system could get into a state where one can neither
> finish a package installation nor remove the package.
I think if you have solid plan & program to fix this, this is right
argument.
> The person who pointed out that it is impossible, withough running a
> postrm script, to guarantee that package detrius has been fully removed,
> is of course correct. But I still think it should be possible to say
> "get as much as you can off the disk and then get all information
> regarding this package out of the database". Modifying postrm to say
> "exit 0" works, but a dkpg option would be nice, too.
Yes. Send a patch to dpkg.
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I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections.
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