On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:08:03AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > package to re-install. If you're not a developer, you don't have > access to archives, so your choice is to either go back to the stable > or testing version of the package, or try to find a mirror that still
With the pool system the old package will kick around on the mirrors for a while. Knowing that they're there is a bit of a trick, mind you. > But now people are saying that using testing is a bad thing. Part of > the problem is that different people have very different ideas about > exactly what testing is useful for. I think some of this is that ideas have changed over time - when testing was new there were high hopes for what it could achieve that haven't been delivered on. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."