Broken upgrade paths in F7

[Rahul Sundaram]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 23:12 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> As such I think Rahul is shooting way over the top with
>>> pulling them from the repo, as that creates even more trouble for users.
>> Package is broken. Maintainer refuses to fix it. Others are not 
>> interested. Pulling the packages is the right way to go since they are 
>> implicitly orphaned packages. What alternative are you suggesting?
> 
> That's not quite true in this case.  The package isn't broken.  The tag
> on which it sits is.  Just clarifying that.

Purely from the end user perspective what difference does it make? I 
don't think the implementation details change the gist of my argument. 
Maintainer politics shouldn't affect end users in a opaque way.

Rahul