Re: arch health

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On 20-04-2017 18:56, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote:
> If I may suggest a pain point: arch needs good support for
> revoking packages and replacing with the previous version
> if regressions are encountered. Case in point ffmpeg 3.3.
> 3.2.4 was fine and 2.8.11 is also fine but 3.3's muxer
> corrupts files. It's not the first instance where I wished
> for official revoke and replace in the index instead of
> manual user intervention.
> 

Have you reported the bug? If yes and the dev decides that it should be
reverted to a previous version there is a way to do it, see:
man pacman | grep -A1 epoch

-- 
Mauro Santos



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