Thread: Marmistrz's failed devel package - unexpected results/conclusions
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2012-04-28 , 19:15
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#14
/me grabs popcorn.

In any case,
Never apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade with extras-devel enabled. It was already common knowledge in 2009... seems that this has to be periodically refreshed...

There has been many similar situations to this one. Someone packages some "dependencies" and all those who apt-get upgrade from extras-devel get bricked.
And packages that brick the device are the easy ones. There are much more subtle issues such as losing audio, codec support, general slowness or battery issues....

So, never upgrade with extras-devel enabled.


Originally Posted by szopin View Post
(but this as security through obscurity is dumb defense at best)
Please explain where the obscurity is. Every package source code is publicly readable for you to read.
 

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