Keeping old versions of packages

[Richard Hughes]

On 13 April 2013 23:09, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> 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.

Not true for the majority of GNOME and KDE packages. You can't test
gnome-control-center 3.9.1 without installing gnome-settings-daemon
3.9.1 as well. Not because of any library interface issue, but because
g-s-d provides the D-Bus API used by g-c-c. The desktop, like it or
not, is getting more monolithic, not less. FWIW, that's a totally good
thing.

Richard.