Evolution & Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Patrick Goetz <pgoetz at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Journal, lwn.net, and breathless reviews across the blogosphere.  Users
> start clamoring for the features of gumptacular 2.0, not knowing how
> they ever lived without them.  So,
>
>    apt-get install gumptacular/ubuntu-experimental

Apt-get already supports this. E.g. it is possible to configure apt-get so that
      apt-get install gumptacular/lucid
will attempt to install the lucid version gumptacular onto a Karmic machine.

> spins out of control and melts the system board.  Problem.  The
> suggested new feature is a way to simply back out of the experimental
> update whenever you get bitten:
>
>    apt-revert gumptacular

Is is what is unsupported. I understand that deb say how to upgrade
you configuration etc. to the new versions, but don't know how to
downgrade.

I understand that supporting downgrade could double the work required
to produce a deb, but I agree that it is worthwhile for at least
important projects like firefox (and of course gumptacular ;).

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted