F11 Proposal: Stabilization

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Nov 19 15:16:18 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 10:23 +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> I would be willing to run with updates-testing on by default on
> several machines if I was sure that faulty packages didn't just go
> away. The problem is that you're stuck with the upgraded package which
> turned out to be buggy, unless you do something manually to get rid of
> it. The alternative is to reissue the original package with a higher
> evra.

How often have you ran into bad updates that are just thrown away,
rather than fixed?  (and by fixed I mean either the bug caused in the
update has been fixed with even newer bits, or the old bits were
re-issued with higher e:n-v-r)

-- 
Jesse Keating
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