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From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Linux packaging letter
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:33:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130723223346.GA17088@vps7135.xlshosting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP2GvgZP_1z3EoSs3p+db7tZB6JfEVAewLpGE5eRpGgR3w@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:01:55PM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote:
> The trigger for this is the discovery that Debian bitcoind's got split out
> of the consensus some time in April, for reasons that nobody yet figured
> out but is presumably related to a patch (eg it uses system leveldb).

Just to make sure there are no misunderstandings, as far as I know there is
no reason to assume the reported problem (comment on #2726) is:
1) a fork (it's an indeterministic and avoidable database corruption, it seems)
2) related to leveldb
3) reproducible by more than one person
4) debian's fault.

That said, I think reaching out to packagers to educate them about the risks
is a good idea - but let's not blame people before we understand our own
problems.

-- 
Pieter





  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-23 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-23 20:01 [Bitcoin-development] Linux packaging letter Mike Hearn
2013-07-23 20:14 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-07-23 20:32   ` Mike Hearn
2013-07-23 20:50     ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-07-28 18:21       ` John Dillon
2013-07-23 22:02 ` Scott Howard
2013-07-23 22:26   ` Luke-Jr
2013-07-24  3:00     ` Scott Howard
2013-07-24  1:45   ` Douglas Huff
2013-07-24  2:27     ` Scott Howard
2013-07-24  3:54     ` [Bitcoin-development] Endianness (was: Linux packaging letter) Wendell
2013-07-24  4:03       ` Luke-Jr
2013-07-24  4:07       ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-07-24  4:09         ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-07-23 22:33 ` Pieter Wuille [this message]
2013-07-23 23:23 ` [Bitcoin-development] Linux packaging letter Greg Troxel
2013-07-23 23:45   ` Luke-Jr
2013-07-24  0:50   ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-07-24  2:35     ` zooko
2013-07-24  3:19       ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-07-24  8:28         ` Mike Hearn
2013-07-24 13:52           ` Jeff Garzik
2013-07-24 15:32             ` zooko
2013-07-24 19:35               ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-07-24 16:01           ` zooko
2013-07-27  0:45           ` Greg Troxel
2013-07-27  0:43     ` Greg Troxel

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