On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 03:48:00AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > Like during the Perl transition period, or when a recent libstdc++ > > broke apt, or when su stopped being able to su, or when .... > > What you are describing is a problem with the package life cycle, not the > replication of incoming. Let me reiterate: > > DO NOT USE INCOMING > > The files may be trojans, corrupt, partial, massively screwed, fail > lintian, whatever. Massive, massive caution is advised!
Absolutely! I was just pointing out how "stable" and "reliable" unstable can be. Using Incoming just makes things worse. I can't be the only maintainer to have pulled packages from Incoming when I've realised that I've made a serious mistake. Can I also recommend the use of Roderick Schertler's dscverify program in devscripts in conjunction with the debian-keyring package to ensure that at the very least the package is properly signed. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/