FS#798 - Poor -Current package testing, please be more serious about it

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 19:59 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Apps that used to work are stopping to work after a "pacman --sync --refresh --sysupgrade", e.g. Balsa stopped working because libtldl.so.3 was not available anymore, while it was before the upgrade. And when I do a "pacman -S libtool" I am told that I do have the latest libtool already installed, but if I tell it to go ahead and re-install it, then it re-installs the missing libtldl.so.3 and then Balsa works. It seems that the upgrades remove files that they shouldn't! I am getting this constantly.
Apps that worked yesterday, today they aren't because of my constant upgrades to Current. I think there is a undamental problem here, and that can only be fixed if you don't ask the developers to fill in the dependancies by hand, and if you have as few dependancies as possible. And
also, better testing before release to Current please.
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 19:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 20:11 GMT
Improving package quality is an ongoing goal, and one that is slowly improving. We've opened a "testing" repository for the potentially-broken packages, which should clear up most of these mis-haps before the packages ever hit Current.
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 19:38 GMT
As this isn't really a bug, per se, I'm closing it.

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