On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 20:00:13 +0100, Mauro Santos via arch-general wrote: >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 For the sake of completeness: "Upstream or Arch? [snip] If Arch is not responsible for a bug, the problem will not be solved by reporting the bug to Arch developers." - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reporting_bug_guidelines#Upstream_or_Arch.3F This policy isn't always pleasant ;), but the Arch developers sometimes are willing to balance pros and cons, so sometimes they fix such issues ;).
