Brad Felmey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 11:35, Warly wrote: > >> It only appears when the smb exported name are encoded in 16 bits, if I >> understood correctly. > > Why it's broke is really not the issue. The fact that it's still broken > and you shipped it that way is the issue.
Yes I agree >> There was plenty of time for you, maybe, but in case you did not notice, >> I did not feel like lazy last days. > > I really don't know what you expect me to say here. Am I supposed to > apologize for wasting your (collective) time with serious bug reports? > For pointing out that release schedule or no release schedule, shipping > this way was a seriously bad decision? Did I blame you? > I'm trying to get my company to cough up some support for MandrakeSoft, > but stuff like this is not making it easy. It makes you look bad and it > makes me look bad. > > I guess there's no help for it now, but please assure me you'll keep > this in mind come 9.x time. Lie if you have to, even that would make me > feel better. My situation was: I had a deadline to March, 15th, I had asked one week before more info and hints about this smbfs bug to our kernel and samba specialist, but had no response until Sunday, March, 17th in the afternoon. I had to upload the ISO in a few hours from that time, with no chance to have an extra delay. I think taking the risk to put an _untested_ kernel in a final distro is hundred times more crazy than knowing the existing bug, and knowing moreover that a fix will be release by the time the boxed version will be out. I choosed the better solution to me, that is not taking the risk to break everything, keeping the advantages of the updates system so that anyone that buy the 8.2 will already have the fix if he wants. I might not have taken the right decision, I might be completely wrong, but at the time I took it I do not feel I could have sensibly choosen to integrate it. -- Warly
