On 5/9/07, Jason Chu
Can we release a new version of pacman 2.X that downloads deps of pacman when it finds a pacman update? I don't know how much work this is.
The problem there is that in order for that to work, that 2.X release would need to remain in the repos for a while, to ensure that most users have an upgradeable version. If we put the new 2.X release out there for, say, a week, some users might miss the upgrade and run into the same issue.
Very true. Again we run into the problem of releasing quickly or releasing "stabley". We have to make a choice: keep back pacman 3 to make the upgrade smoother or move to pacman 3 and force some users to go hunting for a solution. Either way we choose people will be critical, so this is where applying it to some sort of goals comes in handy.
Yeah, but it's not like it's not apparent. pacman actually does fail with "X and Y are missing" even a casual user is able to say "hmmm, pacman -Ss X" to find the package. They will be confused, sure, but it's remedied quickly. Going off of precedent, I think we should just go with the news item and push to current - there have been a few major-ish changes in the past that did similar things, and we don't seem to have an easy way out of this. Can I get a consensus that posting a news item with an easy fix and pushing to current is a good idea? Dan, do you have any additional ideas (Simo had a few, I posted them in IRC last night)?