Keeping old versions of packages

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Apr 13 22:09:16 UTC 2013


Richard Hughes wrote:
> You can't QA a trickle.

Sure you can! It's a basic rule of QA that small isolated changes can be 
debugged much better than a huge hodgepodge of many totally unrelated 
changes.

> If packages are small and self-contained then sure, it might work, but
> applications depending on ~30 other libraries and ~20 other daemons not so
> much.

The packages are sometimes not (small and self-contained), but the changes 
usually are!

        Kevin Kofler



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