Re: Patches that break stuff

2004-07-09 Thread David Stanaway
On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 10:55 -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:53:01AM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote: > > Are any hard stats available on how many Debian package upgrades have had > > to be replaced because they broke something? I'm thinking the total number of > > broken upd

Re: Patches that break stuff

2004-07-09 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:53:01AM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote: > Are any hard stats available on how many Debian package upgrades have had > to be replaced because they broke something? I'm thinking the total number of > broken updates in 2.2 and 3.0 is 0 plus or minus 1 :) It's definitely grea

Patches that break stuff

2004-07-09 Thread Robert Brockway
Hi all. I think this is on-topic for the security list since all Stable package updates I see are security related. On Bugtraq the issue of patches breaking various parts of an OS has been raised (under the thread "Microsoft and Security"). It has been noted by one participant that his company a