On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 11:58:39 +0100, Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> wrote: >Given that these bugs are going to be utter bastards to reproduce, and >you can be sure that we'll have enough diversity in installed systems >that some people are going to manage to be sufficiently unlucky, it >would be nice to know the sort of damage we might expect. > >It strikes me that we ought to be able to screen our own repos for >packages that could be able to tickle this bug. That would give us the >chance to look at what sorts of files we might realistically expect to >be clobbered, it should give some indication of how many packages we >should expect to be able to trigger this, and knowing this might suggest >plausible work-arounds.
This is one of the cases where I wish that Debian would be a more centrally organized project. Red Hat or SuSE would just fix their package management and go on with their business. It's a pity that we have actually THINK about alternatives to that trivial and obvious approach because we leave our core package maintainers too much freedom to stall. Grüße Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834