Thought - Delay auto-updates of software to reduce downtime

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Thursday 21 September 2006 00:22, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> If you don't want to wait, you have several options:
>
> 1) Download the package that's being tested.
> 2) Download upstream and make your own package.
> 3) Downgrade to a previous version of the package.
> 4) Work around the problem until the fix is tested.
>
> -proposed will make #1 easier, but it's already possible.
The issue is that all of that, particularly 2 and 4, would make it much more 
difficult for the user. Even downgrading you have to do manually via dpkg, 
something most users do not know how to do. This would be forcing them to the 
command line, comething which really should be avoided.

Sasha