synaptic broken

[Brandon Hale]

On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 23:22 +0100, Vincenzo Di Massa wrote:
>Alle 22:44, domenica 20 febbraio 2005, Mary Gardiner ha scritto:
>> On Sun, Feb 20, 2005, Vincenzo Di Massa wrote:
>> > Hello everybody...
>> >
>> > The currently available synaptic package is not able to mange
>> > repositories. If you use the menu Settings-> Repositories you are not
>> > given the repositories editing dialog.
>>
>> Looks like this has been filed:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6767
>>
>> You should add more details to the bug if you have them.
>>
>> -Mary
>No, I have not more details :-(
>Sorry I did not check bug tracker.
>
>When a package gets broken, waht does ubuntu managers do?
>a) revert the package to an older working version
>b) wait untill there is a bugfix release 
>c) ....

The correct answer was:

d) find or create a patch to solve the issue and upload a new revision
of the package.

b could also sometimes the case, if the maintainer knows that a bugfix
release is available soon.

HTH,
Brandon Hale