Comment 13 for bug 790538

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Vijay Krishna Ramesh (vijay-krishna-ramesh) wrote :

Colin, that seems like a horrible solution - you now have everybody's apt claiming they need to get a package that 404s, causing apt-get upgrade to fail. I understand a buggy package was released, but once that has been done, you can't just remove the package itself (while leaving reference to it as "here's the latest version of libpam")...

if a fixed version isn't quickly on the way, if nothing else you should release 1.1.1-2ubuntu2 as 1.1.1-2ubuntu5.3 or whatever, so that people who have already installed 1.1.1-2ubuntu5.2 can upgrade to a working version, and people with 1.1.1-2ubuntu2 aren't prompted to install 1.1.1-2ubuntu5.2 that doesn't exist...

i'll add the caveat that i'm not intimately familiar with the release process for ubuntu, but it seems that once a release is publicly accessible, you can't just rollback - you have to move forward to keep in line with every possible "path" (in this case, people who already installed the buggy 1.1.1-2ubuntu5.2 and people with 1.1.1-2ubuntu2 who are now being prompted to upgrade to 1.1.1-2ubuntu5.2).