Hi, On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 10:33:50PM -0700, David Wright wrote: > > >I think problem is Debian "testing" is not released but too stable. So > >people tends to dive in without knowing how to deal with broken > >packages. After all it is testing, we need to know how to handle broken > >package :) > > This brings out a bit of hypocracy in the typical Debian advocacy > argument. To the argument "Debian stable is too old", we reply "you can > always use testing or unstable". But now to those wanting to use testing > and unstable, we reply "you are not advanced enough".
Very true. I think Debian has limitation. > I am certainly not an advanced Debian package manager, but I am an > incredibly advanced Unix user by any measure. I think it's a little > disingenuous to claim that people like me shouldn't be using unstable. You sounds like one who can run mix of testing and unstable. > My complaint wasn't that a particular package was broken, but that the > package management system could get into a state where one can neither > finish a package installation nor remove the package. I think if you have solid plan & program to fix this, this is right argument. > The person who pointed out that it is impossible, withough running a > postrm script, to guarantee that package detrius has been fully removed, > is of course correct. But I still think it should be possible to say > "get as much as you can off the disk and then get all information > regarding this package out of the database". Modifying postrm to say > "exit 0" works, but a dkpg option would be nice, too. Yes. Send a patch to dpkg. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D . See "Debian reference": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/ Project at: http://qref.sf.net . I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]