Bug#645713: Re: Breaks upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy
Hi David,
2013/3/13 David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu> wrote:
>> If apt in wheezy is fixed maybe the fix could be back-ported to squeeze.
>> Would this be and acceptable solution instead of tweaking the
>> dependencies of other packages?
>
> No.
>
> Beside that not all people follow the point-releases debian developers had
> ~4 years of testing and working with apt( and other core things)/squeeze and
> they only seem to stumble across bugs months after deep freeze of wheezy…
> It would be pretty insane to replace this now with basically untested
> (compared to ~2 years in stable-production squeeze) code.
>
> Ignoring this the "fix" for this is a whole GSoC project, so basically
> hundreds of lines of code which will get you hanged, drawn and quartered
> before you have even proposed a debdiff to the stable release team.
>
> That is of course old news to everyone who took the time to do something as
> crazy as read the buglog, but nobody does this nowadays anyway – and so
> that is what I will do with this thread now too… *leaves and mutes thread*
Speaking of myself I have read the buglog and probably missed the part where
it was stated clearly that the fix was known but after analyzing it it became
clear that it would be too big for back-porting it.
I was curious how this bug will be handled since it had not been updated for
some time.
Cheers,
Balint
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