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This idea scares me a bit. Mostly for the rare awful occasions when people either rely on buggy behaviour, or patch around it on the caller side in some unexpec
by angusgr 16y ago
This idea scares me a bit. Mostly for the rare awful occasions when people either rely on buggy behaviour, or patch around it on the caller side in some unexpected way.
I can see it making perfect sense for security updates, but if you have it then you have it for all library updates - security or not.
- _delirium 16y agoYeah, though I think it's mitigated a little bit with a managed-as-a-whole system like Debian, at least if there's communication. Sometimes things break, but sometimes things do actually work, and the maintainers will talk to each other to coordinate updates, inform each other when a change is likely to break other things, etc.