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I once did an apt-get upgrade in the middle of when debian testing was recompiling all packages and moving to a new gcc version. I get it, using testing invites stuff like this. But come on, there should at least be a way to warn people beforehand.
That's kinda weird: shouldn't they recompile everything first and then replace repos' contents?
Me: I want to change my car tire
Car: Hey, your car is going at 60 mph now. Do you want to change your tire now?
Me: Is it not possible?
Car: It's your car, anything is possible with enough effort. As per Google one guy managed to change a tire of a bullock cart while it was moving at 2 mph.
Me: Sounds good. Let's gooo!
This is the experience for Linux tinkerers.
In my case it was:
Me: I want to change my car tire, and i naturally assume we are parked safely in the garage. This is a routine maintenance thing after all.
Car: Sure thing! bork
Me: Umm, why are wrapped around a tree?
Car: Well, we were currently going 60mph, and we posted about it on this website.
Me: Why is there no warning that tells me that doing maintenance now will crash my car?
Car: Well like i said, there is, and it is on this website you should have gone to.
In my personal experience, these sort of things happen rarely, unless you are using some sort of rolling-release distribution. For all my mission-critical docker apps, I wait for at least a week after a major update has been pushed and check the dev website.