Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-28 Thread David Wright
orts and everything is > rock-solid. > > But I am afraid that we have deviated from the original topic. If I > understood Carl correctly - he was expressing his pain because of > bureaucratic scrutiny of filing bugs to stable that brings absolutely no > results. "

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-20 Thread Ihor Antonov
ntioned - backports should be the first option to try if you run stable. I run a few servers stable + backports and everything is rock-solid. But I am afraid that we have deviated from the original topic. If I understood Carl correctly - he was expressing his pain because of bureaucratic scr

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 apr 20, 13:28:57, Ihor Antonov wrote: > > Reporting from Debian Sid, everything is quite stable. I do run ZFS on root > and make snapshots prior to big upgrades as a pre-caution, but so far > I did not have a reason to revert anything. It's just a matter of time. Even if Debian does

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Keith Bainbridge
reportbug to try a newer version. Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script that says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fixed. Try Testing." Seriously, that's literally the Debian policy, that only security fixes are done in Stable. Actually bugs o

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread David Wright
gt; fiddling with pointlessly arcane configuration files that are sort of > documented > if you squint. > > (Yes, the pun on "bug" is deliberate.) > > Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script that > says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fi

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread riveravaldez
n the standard request from reportbug to try a > newer version. > >> Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script >> that >> says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fixed. Try Testing." Seriously, >> that's >> literally the Debi

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Ihor Antonov
> By? I'm guessing you mean the standard request from reportbug to try a > newer version. > > > Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script > > that > > says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fixed. Try Testing." Seriously, > > th

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, 2020-04-19 at 10:27 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 09:51:02AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > > What applications do you feel aren't up-to-date enough for your liking? > > I'm genuinely curious. > > Mr. Heskett's comments made me want to tell him how to lower the CPU

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:51:02 -0400 Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Sun, 2020-04-19 at 09:43 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script that > > says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fixed. Try Testing." Seriously, that's

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 09:51:02AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > What applications do you feel aren't up-to-date enough for your liking? > I'm genuinely curious. Mr. Heskett's comments made me want to tell him how to lower the CPU usage of BOINC. However, boinc-manager in Stable, at least on my

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
. > Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script that > says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fixed. Try Testing." Seriously, that's > literally the Debian policy, that only security fixes are done in Stable. Actually bugs of severity "important&

Re: Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, 2020-04-19 at 09:43 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script that > says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fixed. Try Testing." Seriously, that's > literally the Debian policy, that only security fixes are done

Reporting bugs in Stable

2020-04-19 Thread Carl Fink
if you squint. (Yes, the pun on "bug" is deliberate.) Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script that says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fixed. Try Testing." Seriously, that's literally the Debian policy, that only security fixes are done in Stabl

correctif de bugs dans 'stable'

2009-04-21 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Bonjour je m'interroge sur le processus debian qui permet d'intégrer des bugfix dans 'stable' (en l'occurence Lenny) certains bugs ont des correctifs connus (genre 2 lignes dans un script) ou corrigés upstream (3.6.1 - 3.6.3) et ne sont toujours pas dans lenny, parfois après un délai de

bugs in stable ?

2004-05-02 Thread xavier
Hello, I use debian stable on a couple servers, and testing/unstable on my workstations. works great. The security updates are nice on both stable and unstable. debian-security-announce is wonderful. (did i mention apt-get yet ? ;-) However, when there is a problem on a package in stable

Re: bugs in stable ?

2004-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 06:34:18PM -0400, xavier wrote: However, when there is a problem on a package in stable which is not important enough to be updated, the package stays as-is and information about this bug is difficult to retrieve. That the package doesn't change is fine with me,

Re: bugs in stable ?

2004-05-02 Thread xavier
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:44:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: This is being worked on (by me) in the bug tracking system. It's not an easy task, and not well-solved by tags. Thanks a lot, I guess you think that's an issue too. Although I perfectly understand it is a hard problem to solve,

Re: bugs in stable ?

2004-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 06:59:10PM -0400, xavier wrote: On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:44:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: This is being worked on (by me) in the bug tracking system. It's not an easy task, and not well-solved by tags. Thanks a lot, I guess you think that's an issue too.