Re: Bug#112723: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-21 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit In practise, it might be perfectly safe to install on a normal partition. Just that there is no point. I think it replaces /sbin/init, so it's not harmless.. Thinking about the merits of having diskless nodes being able to upgrade, is an

Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-20 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit A note. Good. Send me a patch. I will apply it. ... after woody, probably. It has been there since potato, and I don't think I will make a last minute change to a package. This is, IMO a bogus bug. Go and fix a real bug. There are enough

Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-20 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:20:31PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: This is, IMO a bogus bug. Go and fix a real bug. There are enough already. A package that will do grave damage to your system if installed is not a real bug? -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website:

Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-20 Thread Junichi Uekawa
severity 112723 critical thanks David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:20:31PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: This is, IMO a bogus bug. Go and fix a real bug. There are enough already. A package that will do grave damage to your system if installed

Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-20 Thread Norbert Veber
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 03:16:13PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:01:24AM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote: packages such as diskless-image-secure, diskless-image-simple, xfsprogs-bf, e2fsprogs-bf should automatically qualify for grave or even critical bugs for breaking

Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-20 Thread Steve Greenland
On 19-Sep-01, 18:16 (CDT), Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: read the description for xfsprogs-bf and e2fsprogs-bf, your NOT SUPPOSED to install them. we need them for boot-floppies. Fine. Why are they in the main archive? If it's so that the bf can access them over the net, then they

Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-20 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Norbert Veber wrote on Thu Sep 20, 2001 um 09:58:16AM: If its not to be installed, it should not be in the archive. This is like going to a restaurant and being told not to eat a certain dish under any circumstances because you'll get food poisoning.. :) What is the problem?

Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:58:16AM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote: If its not to be installed, it should not be in the archive. This is like going to a restaurant and being told not to eat a certain dish under any circumstances because you'll get food poisoning.. :) Clearly these pacakges are

Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-20 Thread Brian May
Norbert == Norbert Veber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Norbert From the description of diskless-image-simple: WARNING: Norbert This package can and will break your computer. Do not Norbert install manually. It should only be installed via the Norbert diskless-newimage, part of the

Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-19 Thread Norbert Veber
Hi, It looks like more and more of these are popping up. It seems to me that packages such as diskless-image-secure, diskless-image-simple, xfsprogs-bf, e2fsprogs-bf should automatically qualify for grave or even critical bugs for breaking your system if installed. From the description of

Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-19 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:01:24 -0400 Norbert cum veritate scripsit : Why are such things allowed into the archive? Will these things ever even make it into testing given that they are uninstallable? diskless-image-secure | 0.3.6 |stable | all diskless-image-secure | 0.3.15 |

Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:01:24AM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote: packages such as diskless-image-secure, diskless-image-simple, xfsprogs-bf, e2fsprogs-bf should automatically qualify for grave or even critical bugs for breaking your system if installed. read the description for xfsprogs-bf and

Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:01:24 -0400 Norbert Veber [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: It looks like more and more of these are popping up. It seems to me that by the way, I think we're losing lots of the benefits our release/test cycle is suppose to give us... I see many people making last-hour changes