Michael Schwendt wrote:
> By the time the first testers noticed the scriptlet errors it was too
> late, since stable updates cannot be withdrawn.
That is also not a law of Physics. In the early days of Bodhi, one could
actually unpush stuff from stable. Having stable updates become immutable is
purely a policy decision. Withdrawing faulty updates has been done in the
past (even after Bodhi stopped allowing it in the normal case; the pulling
has then been done by an admin) and should be done again. Of course it won't
fix the systems that already got upgraded, but it will (within mirroring
delays) stop MORE systems from getting affected (and those that did already
get the faulty update won't notice the difference, unless they distro-sync,
in which case withdrawing the update actually fixes them, so in no case does
it make things worse for them).
And I don't see any valid reason why stable updates cannot simply be
withdrawn or sent back to testing by the maintainer. The update notes should
also remain editable, so that bug references can be added when the bug was
only found to be fixed after the stable push, errors in the update
description can be fixed, etc.
Kevin Kofler
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