Post #3959045
2026-07-20 12:06 UTC
I am afraid we are talking about different things. Recently I had to report a broken package to a repository. The problem was that they mapped a path to the incorrect directory.
The software compiled and worked correctly, but some specific functionality which needed to read data from that directory was broken.
I do not think there is a way to prevent this kind of errors.
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@ignominous_wombat@lemmy.ml 2026-07-20 20:49
I am thinking that they wouldn’t define that as a broken package, since I would consider that a bug that would need to be addressed in the next release. I would expect a broken package not to be able to run rather than simply having a broken function.