On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 20:00:13 +0100, Mauro Santos via arch-general wrote:
On 20-04-2017 18:56, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote:
If I may suggest a pain point: arch needs good support for revoking packages and replacing with the previous version if regressions are encountered. Case in point ffmpeg 3.3. 3.2.4 was fine and 2.8.11 is also fine but 3.3's muxer corrupts files. It's not the first instance where I wished for official revoke and replace in the index instead of manual user intervention.
Have you reported the bug? If yes and the dev decides that it should be reverted to a previous version there is a way to do it, see: man pacman | grep -A1 epoch
For the sake of completeness: "Upstream or Arch? [snip] If Arch is not responsible for a bug, the problem will not be solved by reporting the bug to Arch developers." - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reporting_bug_guidelines#Upstream_or_Ar... This policy isn't always pleasant ;), but the Arch developers sometimes are willing to balance pros and cons, so sometimes they fix such issues ;).