[arch-general] arch health

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 12:05 AM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general <
arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

>
> Yes it's easy to downgrade manually on a single machine, but my
> suggestion is about repo maintainers having a mechanism to force
> a downgrade via the index. This is less of an issue for LTS distros
> but important for non-testing users of Arch and other rolling distros.
> The package maintainer cannot know that 3.3 has a corruption bug and
> naturally trusts ffmpeg's announcement that 3.3 is a stable release.
> I did too and was surprised. It's my first ffmpeg surprise and usually
> ffmpeg is reliable.
>
> They do, it's called the epoch (see man PKGBUILD).