Peter Jones wrote:
> Other corner cases where your case was wrong include new packages that
> Obsolete existing packages.
Nonsense. I wrote "new package which doesn't replace anything". Obsoletes =
replacing.
>> Even if you fix all the fixable problems, testing will still not be a
>> silver bullet!
>
> Nobody is saying that it is! Merely that it's better than not having
> testing!
I'm not suggesting we should not have testing, I'm suggesting we should be
able to skip it for urgent fixes, such as regressions which slipped through
testing (because testing is not a silver bullet)!
>> X11 is particularly dangerous for this kind of changes, given how low it
>> is in the software stack and how some code necessarily looks like
>> (hardware drivers in particular are always scary stuff). The average leaf
>> package is much less propice to breakage induced by minimal changes.
>
> This is just plain bull. High level packages also have one line fixes that
> are simple, elegant, and wrong.
They are much less likely though.
Kevin Kofler
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