> 3 weeks is short. Is the bug release-critical? > http://bugs.debian.org/684352
I really don't know whether it qualifies as release-critical. Sometimes the wireless works and some times it just doesn't and still doesn't after I reboot. There is a work-around of dropping to the console and running a "sudo rfkill unblock all". The better workaround is to just blacklist the HP platform driver altogether. The whole issue is a regression. Neither Squeeze nor Lenny had this problem and it's a 6 year old laptop. >> 3. A couple months ago, an upstream developer wrote a patch to fix >> what I consider to be a serious bug that makes a lot of apps >> unusable under normal (aka "user customized") conditions. Upstream >> reviewed and approved the patch but the patch is written for KDE >> 4.9. 1. I tried applying the patch to KDE 4.8. 4 in Wheezy which >> ended up as a spectacular failure during compile. I asked upstream >> to back port the patch to kde 4.8. 4 in Debian and they said that >> they do not control the release of Debian and that KDE 4.8.5 is >> available. I'm almost certain the patch upstream wrote isn't >> going to work with 4.8.5 either, but I haven't tried it as I don't >> want to be that far away from Debian's packages. There is a >> work-around that's very easy to do, but it's not obvious, and it >> saps performance from my PC. I'm certain some Debian users running >> KDE will eventually run into this very annoying problem and have to >> Google and enable the work around. I will likely end up backporting >> the patch myself for my own personal needs if the workaround annoys >> me enough some day, which it probably will.... eventually... I >> worry that if I backport this patch, it might be a little ugly and >> probably not suitable for Debian anyway, although I really haven't >> looked at backporting the patch yet. > > Bug report number please? If the conditions under which the bug bites > are really "normal" as in statistically significant, you have a > release-critical bug here. If you can prepare a patch, even ugly, it > will help the package maintainer to decide whether and how to fix this > bug for Wheezy. http://bugs.debian.org/690426 Thanks for your help and advice. I greatly appreciate it. -David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+7qwU=tm3ucczxgghvykgueowd87amxgkfn0ywuykkl5m4...@mail.gmail.com
