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