On Fri, 23 May 2003, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 08:11:23PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > Consider the admin, who discovers some bug. They look at the changelogs for > > the problem package, seeing if it had a similiar bug. Also, consider that > > this system is not online, and the admin has no network connection. > > Well, an admin who is not online but do has changelogs which are more recent > that his installed packages is for sure quite seldom. I wonder is that is a > very common reason at all.
You misunderstand. Admin installs from cd. Admin runs programs. Admin finds something he thinks is a bug. Admin reads changelog to see if the bug existed previously.