On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 21:22 +0000, Jim > But that should be an indication of why testing is necessary: a failed > installation and a message of why it failed is infinitely better than a > successful installation that breaks browsers.
And better than both would be a warning of some kind that informs of the situation, but still allows the user to override the developer's decision to prevent the installation of software he wants. > Yesterday's Konqueror bug > could be tomorrow's Firefox bug, and you might break Firefox for all > users. If you had all package maintainers with that maverick mentality, > you'd end up with a generally unstable OS. Implausible, since macromedia's main testing environment would obviously be firefox. Again, put the user in control of the situation, not the packager. -- flashplugin-nonfree fails to install... new version? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173890 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
