On 2024-12-22 Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote: > On Sat 21 Dec 2024 at 06:15pm +01, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
>> Uploads to the archive are not irreversible. You can just as well >> upload a new version reverting whatever was done. >> Please everybody stop treating the archive as the holy thing that >> only blessed maintainers can touch. This stance helps nobody. >> ITS solely for QA work is in the same boat of wrong. Just NMU. > Yes, quite. Integers are cheap, and these are not uploads directly to > stable. We can always just upload again. Good morning, Uploading to unstable makes changes user-visible, that is a enormous difference to a GIT commit. Also nowadays we consider unstable as staging ground for our next release, we have gone away from the "thank you for using unstable, if it breaks you may keep both pieces"-approach. Many changes in a installed package are not trivially/easily revertable. Think of moving files between pacages (Needs Replaces/Breaks), replaxing symlinks by dirs and vice versa (needs dpkg-maintscript-helper), changing dpkg-conffiles (not really undoable). cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
