Re: Re: A reminder: you cannot just "revert" package version bumps

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kevin wrote:
> distro-sync is nice and all, but it's not a silver bullet.
> In cases of simple packages a downgrade may not break anything, but in
> cases where other things already built upon it, where the new one
> changed conguration or interface, or even where the upgrade changed
> data, it can leave things in a pretty unfortunate state.

And the proposed "solution" of bumping Epoch fixes none of that. It just 
introduces an Epoch that we will be stuck with forever. It will not 
magically make the downgrade safe in any of the 3 situations you describe.

        Kevin Kofler
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