Bug#366795: apt 0.6.44 downloads pdiff files
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:05:14PM -0700, David Liontooth wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.43.3
> Severity: important
Thanks for your bugreport.
> apt 0.6.44 has serious problems -- due to "apt pdiff support from experimental
> merged"?
Can you please attach the output of:
# apt-get update -o Debug::PkgAcquire::Diffs=true
You can get the old apt behaviour back (no pdiff support) with:
# apt-get update -o Acquire::PDiffs=False
[..]
> You get the idea. It also breaks wajig. This is such a key package that it's
> alarming to have it fail so spectacularly; for the first time I'm filing a bug as
> "important".
[..]
In what way did it break wajig?
About the alarmingness of a key-package failing. Well, pdiff support
was in experimental for a long time. Apparently there is no other way
to expose a new feature to real world testing other than to upload it
to unstable (I didn't had reports about this particular problem from
the version in experimental). The name "unstable" implies that
breakage may happen. Don't get me wrong, I would love to have a better
way to expose risky new features to the world :)
Cheers,
Michael
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